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...will recall with a shudder the surreal and sexy details of that story from the winter of 1977. The 27-year-old McKinney was accused in court, along with a friend, Keith May, of abducting 21-year-old Mormon missionary Kirk Anderson from a church in a London suburb and taking him to a cottage in Okehampton, Devon in the southwest of England. There, said Anderson, he was chained to a bed and forced to have sex with McKinney for three days. McKinney, once a Mormon herself, was said to have formed a crush on him after they'd first...
...long time, I thought I was the first member of any Blockbuster. Then I found out through further research - actually someone called me out on it - that I was the first member of the second Blockbuster. I grew up in the late '80s in a suburb of Dallas that evolved from this cool, multicultural community to a testing ground for massive franchises. And when I heard 10,000 movies were coming to town - an eighth grade movie nut just starting his education of movie history - I was waiting at the door banging on the glass so they could open...
Inflation in India has hit a 13-year high, but you wouldn't know that as you walk around the Infiniti Mall in Andheri, a Mumbai suburb. The young men and women - many of whom are aspiring models and film stars (the Bollywood studios are not far from here) - are crowding in with their cell phones and laptops, and the place looks as busy as ever...
...last lair wasn't a cave or a safe house; no secret bolt-holes or special security details shielded him. Instead, the former Bosnian Serb leader, one of the world's most wanted men, was hiding in plain view amid the drab, anonymous housing blocks of New Belgrade, a suburb of the Serbian capital. He was nabbed not by NATO, whose forces had spent 12 years in a vain and sometimes desultory search for him, but by the security forces of Serbia - the country whose designs for grandeur he had so ardently tried to further. In the end, it seems...
...like Anna Magnani when she goes mad. In Act II she is like a cloud.'' SYLVIE GUILLEM. Until she was eleven and fell in love with ''le spectacle,'' or the show-biz side of ballet, this lyrical athlete was a whiz-kid gymnast in the blue-collar Paris suburb of Le Blanc-Mesnil. In 1980 Balanchine picked her out of a line of 15-year-olds when he called on the Paris Opera Ballet School. Three years later, Rudolf Nureyev, who had taken over as the company's director, did the same, casting her out of the corps...