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There has always been a game of one-downsmanship among modern memoirists as to who has the weirdest, most dysfunctional, most damaging parents. Granted, Kathryn Har- rison more or less ran the table with 1997's The Kiss, which describes her four-year affair with her father, and Frank McCourt (Angela's Ashes) and Augusten Burroughs (Running with Scissors) aren't far behind. But there's spirited competition for fourth place. Two new memoirs, Michael Rips' The Face of a Naked Lady (Houghton Mifflin; 192 pages) and Jeannette Walls' The Glass Castle (Scribner; 288 pages), are worthy contenders...
Some say love, it is a river that drowns the tender reed. Some say love, it is a razor that leaves your soul to bleed. ANDRE RISON and LISA ("LEFT EYE") LOPES say love is gunshots and fire, and Bette Midler be damned. After an eight-year, on-again off-again relationship that's seen Rison shoot a gun in the air after a fight with Lopes and Lopes accidentally burn down the couple's $1.5 million mansion after a fight with Rison, America's supreme fun-loving duo is finally getting hitched. Rison, a widely traveled NFL receiver, told...
...last album came out. Lopes, who handles all the raps on the group's albums, has developed a reputation as the wild card of the trio. In 1994 she was fined and put on probation after burning down the million-dollar home of her boyfriend, former Atlanta Falcon Andre Rison. The two later became engaged and then broke...
Wide receiver Andre Rison and Tony Gonzalez for the Chiefs (4-2), who had a four-game winning streak broken and lost in Miami for the sixth straight time...
...Rison and federal prison officials maintain that Martin had broken federal regulations against prisoners' being employed and receiving outside compensation. Defense Attorney George Stoll argued at a hearing last month that Martin "isn't Bret Harte or somebody who is uniquely describing the California experience. He's a federal prisoner, and he's moved around from time to time...