Word: singer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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ACQUITTED. Jerry Lee Lewis, 49, renegade rockabilly singer who has had numerous brushes with the law over the years; of federal income tax evasion; in Memphis. He was indicted last February for concealing income from 1975 to 1980. But his lawyer successfully argued that with Lewis' sixth-grade education, he was incompetent to handle his own finances. Despite the acquittal, Lewis still owes...
...small part of the big picture of Mafia organization and activity. U.S. and Italian officials point out that Buscetta has revealed far more about the activities of the Corleone families than he has about his own Palermo organization. They suspect that despite his talk about honor, the Sicilian singer may lose his voice once he has finished implicating his rivals. They also note that the loose-tongued Buscetta is a rarity and that most Mafiosi still respect their organization, and value their lives, sufficiently to keep silent...
...slinked and sashayed her way into Tom Cruise's house and heart in Risky Business, will appear as the rock-singing spouse of a homespun home-run hitter in a film called The Slugger's Wife. De Mornay's fantasy has always been to be a singer. So for the film she practiced long hours with Arranger Quincy Jones, and now several of her songs will be released as singles, at least one as a video. But De Mornay is not looking to switch careers. "Singing is more revealing than acting," she says. "When...
...After the Fall accedes readily enough to the demands of celebrity: Tell us all, tell us the worst, tell us more than we think we want to know. Although Quentin, the play's protagonist, is a lawyer, and Maggie, his second wife, is a pop singer, the veils quickly fall. Fiction is revealed as self-pitying psychodrama, and Miller's descent into himself risks being taken as a wallow in metaphysical sleaze...
Mary Shelley would be pleased-or would she? The author's redivivus creation, the Frankenstein monster, is back again for a new-wave horror movie that sounds like, but is not, a remake of The Bride of Frankenstein. It stars Rock Singer Sting, 33, as Baron Frankenstein, and Flashdance Star Jennifer Beals, 20, as Eva, whom the good doctor whips up in the lab as a mate for his born-again monster. "I thought it would be interesting to play someone who came back from the dead but was still very human," says Beals. Understandably, her character shuns Frank...