Word: singer
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...reason? Giarratano, 33, now a jailhouse lawyer, is no longer convinced he was the killer. Since 1983, he and supporters, ranging from conservative columnist James J. Kilpatrick to singer-activist Joan Baez, have sought to show that various statements in his confession contradict each other and the crime-scene evidence. Wilder, who received 6,000 pleas to commute the death sentence, ultimately agreed. But only state attorney general Mary Sue Terry can grant Giarratano a second trial, and she is so far unwilling...
...Danny Singer '92 is appropriately slimy as leading man Mel O'Drama. With his slicked back hair, slicker voice and perfectly trimmed moustache, Singer plays God's gift to the world with a natural arrogance that only a Harvard student needn't affect...
Jason Tomarken '91 is convincing as Barbara Seville, O'Drama's getting-past-her-prime leading lady who stands about a foot taller than Singer, to humorous effect. Tomarken is one of the few female parts who masters the art of feminine mannerisms...
...Willie Nelson is on the road again, it may be because he has no place else to go. Last week the Internal Revenue Service auctioned off two of the country singer's homes, taken as partial payment of back taxes and penalties. The agency sold Nelson's Evergreen, Colo., retreat for $650,000, and his ranch in Dripping Springs, Texas, went to Nelson supporter John Arens for $203,000. The IRS claims that Nelson owes the government a total of $16.7 million for failing to file tax returns from 1975 to 1977 and for taking invalid deductions. The singer...
French police have banned the sale of a hit record called Go for It Saddam, a paean to the Iraqi dictator. Recorded in Arabic by Algerian singer Mohamed Mazouni, the song is popular with France's North African youth. The single, which was available in both audio- and videocassette versions, attacks the West for the war and ends on an apocalyptic note: "Where are you, Muslims?/ You permitted Bush/ to tread in the Holy Shrines . . . other Arabs are hypnotized by the dollar . . . /Oil prices rise, the atomic bomb/ is being made to terrorize Israel...