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...civil suit filed in 1985, his former wife Gale Wenk du Pont charged that John had threatened her with a knife and gun and tried to push her out of his moving car. Neighbors recall such incidents as Du Pont's driving two Lincoln Continentals into the farm's pond, one after another, and arriving at one of the houses on his property on Christmas Eve, drunk, bloodied and in his army personnel carrier. "It was like a Howard Hughes scenario," Martha du Pont, wife of John's brother Henry, told the Associated Press. "He withdrew from his family...
Chaid, who has been planning to file suit this week over the incident, claims he called the local police only to be told, "John is just an eccentric. I've known him 40 years." And in fact Du Pont, an accomplished shooter who once competed in the pentathlon (a five-event competition that includes swimming, riding, shooting, running and fencing), taught marksmanship to the police force for years and has since bought equipment for the force and helped train their dogs. "He was a friend of the police department," says retired police chief Stan Short...
...flabby film stars [CHRONICLES, Jan. 15], we would not be deluded into thinking that everyone is perfect, and we would be ready to live with our own warts more easily. But I will still cross any street any day to see Smilin' Jack Nicholson wearing anything--even his birthday suit! DARLENE MACK Lincoln City, Oregon
...video, he complained that "these white folks ain't gonna let me do anything. I've got to try to do something with blacks." So alarmed were Simpson's lawyers by the prospect of a public appearance the same week he was being deposed in the wrongful death suit that some of them put their objections in writing. But Simpson would not be deflected. After complex negotiations with BET, it was agreed that the network could ask whatever it wished, but Simpson didn't have to answer--and BET sold him $200,000 worth of ad time to hawk...
Some works don't quite succeed in this respect. Hanh Thi Pham's "Along the Street of Knives" series, a group of arranged, representative story action photos, seems contrived at best. The components of the photo, though carefully arranged, are otherwise empty: a man in a spiffy suit is the American; Hanh Thi Pham peers from around a wall with stage-like exaggeration in drama...