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...Russ & Bo Show, a talk-radio program broadcast in the evening over WTKS-FM in Orlando, Florida, usually concerns itself with "women and beer," as one of the hosts, Russ Rollins, puts it. But on Sept. 25, the show addressed the subject of child abuse, commemorating the death exactly 14 years earlier of Ursula Sunshine Assaid. When she was five years old, Ursula was tortured and killed by her mother's boyfriend, Donald McDougall. The murder still causes bitterness in Orlando, and on the anniversary, the Russ & Bo Show devoted five hours to it. Between phone calls, Rollins graphically described...
Although some controversial films, then, often have artistic merit and justifiable emotional intensity to shield them, "Vixen!" is a Russ Meyer special, a masterpiece of the sex-ploitation genre. As with Meyer's other films, like "Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!," the main feature is one or more heroines with impossibly ample bosoms and improbable sexual appetites. Yet, like other shocking films before it, audiences voted with their wallets. The film, shot with a $76,000 budget, made a profit of $6,000,000 and brought Meyer to the attention of Twentieth-Century Fox. The film's success gave rise...
...Momentum is on our side. We are now over 50,000, and we are surging ahead rapidly," said Russ Verney, executive director of the group. "Fifty thousand is a hard and fast figure. We photocopied those before turning them in. We believe there are thousands of other voters who sent their registrations directly to the state...
...Reform Party has registered just 10,217 of the 89,007 voters it needs to win a place on California's 1996 presidential ballot. But Perot's United We Stand America disputes the figure. "We are now over 50,000, and we are surging ahead rapidly," executive director Russ Verney told the Associated Press. "Fifty thousand is a hard and fast figure. We photocopied those before turning them in.." Meanwhile, the state says, the science-oriented Natural Law Party is closest to qualifying, with 69,438 registered voters...
Commercially, HIStory can't miss, though its hefty cost -- a list price of $32.98, which may be discounted by as much as $10 in some stores -- could be an impediment to megasales. Russ Solomon, head of Tower Records, asks, "What ordinary high school kid is going to shell out 25 bucks unless they want it awfully bad?" Still, early indications are good. Scream hit No. 5 on the Billboard singles chart in its first week-the highest debut for a single ever. Says Mike Shallet of SoundScan, which tracks music sales: "Naysayers are going to be surprised. There...