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...year-old Swedish woman arrested for home brewing illegal alcohol was let off a jail sentence because at 350 pounds she was too fat to handle her own personal hygiene. She would have been in the slammer...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fifteen Minutes: 15 Minutes | 2/24/2000 | See Source »

...shut up, shut up, SHUT UP for just a few minutes please...during a flight from Madrid to Manchester. Authorities there claimed his mobile's emissions constituted a safety hazard, interfering with air-tower-to-pilot communications. But we know better, don't we? They threw him in the slammer for sweet revenge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: We're Already Living in Cell Hell | 8/23/1999 | See Source »

Downey has reason to be in good spirits. Not only has he just been sprung from the slammer, he also has a new movie opening this week, Two Girls and a Guy, that's generating strong buzz for his role as a duplicitous lothario confronted by the two women he's been dating simultaneously (see review). And he has two more films coming out this year: In Dreams, in which he plays a psycho telepathically stalking Annette Bening, and Friends and Lovers, an indie comedy-drama that finds him playing a ski instructor. Though he must return each night...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: From Hollywood To Hell And Back | 4/27/1998 | See Source »

...released briefly in 1993, before his speeches and writings got him thrown into the slammer again. Only in recent years has he seemed less of a threat, obviously weakened and sometimes listless, wasting away in a cold cell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FREE--AND STILL FEISTY | 12/1/1997 | See Source »

After the trial, Albert's accuser revealed herself to be Vanessa Perhach, a hotel worker from Vienna, Va. "I got justice," she said in a newspaper interview. "He admitted he did something wrong." She also said she hoped Albert wouldn't be thrown in the slammer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OH, NO! FOR THE YES MAN | 10/6/1997 | See Source »

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