Word: seagal
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...magazines and hundreds of photographs of a smiling, immaculate Rana presiding over concerts and book launches and hosting American millionaires at exorbitant black-tie fund raisers under white chiffon marquees. "The scene buzzes," wrote the London Evening Standard in March 2001, noting visits by Sting, Lachlan Murdoch and Steven Seagal. "By day, a sophisticated crowd of models and embassy wives shop for antiques and jewelry ... At night the mood changes?a private view at a gallery, jazz at K2 and dinner at Baithak, a small Nepalese-Mughal eatery with silver trays, Belgian crystal and peeling peppermint walls." But halfway through...
...cause. Some of the more famous acolytes, such as actor Richard Gere, successfully raise the issue in any public forum they can. Others go local, offering free labor at the health or public-affairs offices and chanting at temples. A few go way too far: action hero Steven Seagal has claimed to be the incarnation of an important Tibetan monk...
...lager, Tawandaeng intoxicates its nightly crowd of Thai professionals with its energetic house band Fong Nam, who play a mix of traditional Thai songs and sugary Western pop. Legendary Thai folk icon Ad Carabao gave a series of concerts at Tawandaeng's music hall last September. Film star Steven Seagal even joined him on stage for a blues jam. I can't believe I missed...
...spent six days last week in a Los Angeles jail on charges of illegal weapons possession, after police searched his office to see if he was involved in the harassment of Los Angeles Times reporter Anita Busch. While researching a story on a possible mob shakedown of actor Steven Seagal, Busch found a dead fish, a rose and a note reading STOP on her car. Police traced the threat to an ex-con who said he had been hired by Pellicano on behalf of Seagal...
...office, police found two handguns, two modified hand grenades and material consistent with C4 plastic explosive "strong enough to bring down an airplane," according to an FBI agent on the case. Pellicano said the armaments were from an old case, and his attorney denied any complicity in the Seagal affair. Seagal says he never tried to stop the stories either. Pellicano was released on $400,000 bond and had to surrender his passport...