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3a7848ce8b8f9d1b4b8c544025a66d3f | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1993-01-23-mn-1617-story.html | Former Indonesian First Lady Gets Jail Term in Slashing Case | Former Indonesian First Lady Gets Jail Term in Slashing Case
Former Indonesian first lady Dewi Sukarno was sentenced Friday to 60 days in jail for slashing fellow jet-setter Maria Osmena in the face with a wine glass.
At a hearing in Rio Blanco County District Court, Sukarno pleaded with Judge J. E. DeVilbiss for compa... |
492b94291d872174df29bc0290c1158a | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1993-01-25-mn-1675-story.html | Times Political Cartoonist Paul Conrad to Retire | Times Political Cartoonist Paul Conrad to Retire
Paul Conrad, three-time Pulitzer Prize winner and political cartoonist for the Los Angeles Times since 1964, will retire from the newspaper March 31.
Conrad, 68, will continue to have his cartoons distributed by the Los Angeles Times Syndicate, and his cartoons will appe... |
bb165bbce87d26bbb0b98ef1ff490a4d | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1993-01-27-fi-1862-story.html | ENTERTAINMENT | ENTERTAINMENT
Robertson Completes MTM Acquisition: Television evangelist Pat Robertson’s International Family Entertainment Inc. said it has formally acquired London-based TVS Entertainment, which owns the MTM television library. The deal is worth about $86 million.
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957041f322656541acade8d7b0753a46 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1993-01-31-mn-1053-story.html | Thinking the Unthinkable: What Led 4 Teens to Torture, Murder Child? | Thinking the Unthinkable: What Led 4 Teens to Torture, Murder Child?
The roar of the Chevy, its muffler missing, pierced the serenity of the sunny winter morning as the car sputtered to a halt along a desolate stretch of gravel road.
The teen-age girls in rumpled jeans got out and opened the trunk. Inside, Shanda Renee... |
bcb5051854733105fad80d3435154b81 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1993-02-07-mn-1615-story.html | Town Finds Horrible Secrets Behind White Picket Fences : Crime: A 13-year-old girl was found murdered in a neighbor’s house, and the local police chief and a patrolman were accused of raping youngsters in separate incidents. | Town Finds Horrible Secrets Behind White Picket Fences : Crime: A 13-year-old girl was found murdered in a neighbor’s house, and the local police chief and a patrolman were accused of raping youngsters in separate incidents.
Parents in this sleepy New England town never used to think twice about letting their children ... |
cad3b6a87e3d105ddd997814074079f7 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1993-02-10-mn-1337-story.html | President to Cut Staff at White House : Spending: About 350 jobs to be slashed, aides say. Janet Reno, Florida prosecutor, is considered for attorney general. | President to Cut Staff at White House : Spending: About 350 jobs to be slashed, aides say. Janet Reno, Florida prosecutor, is considered for attorney general.
President Clinton on Tuesday announced his long-promised plan to reduce the size of the White House staff--a move designed to demonstrate his willingness to pare... |
7844c13d790fd83b6b9ec1f17df47d51 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1993-02-11-ol-1587-story.html | ‘Animal Farm’ an Adult Cartoon | ‘Animal Farm’ an Adult Cartoon
The Brits took a long time before turning to animation. When England’s movie industry finally did, in 1954, it wasn’t an anglicized take on the kind of family fare that did so well in the States--no pretty story about little deer, little elephants or little mice.
The inspiration for Brita... |
1e484823a97653b490e552efbe9578ed | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1993-02-13-sp-1301-story.html | Thousands Pay Tribute to Ashe : Memorial service: Late tennis champion is honored by friends, politicians and others in New York. | Thousands Pay Tribute to Ashe : Memorial service: Late tennis champion is honored by friends, politicians and others in New York.
Arthur Ashe was eulogized as a “friend and a freedom fighter” during a poignant memorial service Friday under the Gothic arches of Manhattan’s Cathedral of St. John the Divine.
Snow fell, co... |
d2d291e800e5cd2aaef43f3c436eb63c | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1993-02-14-mn-150-story.html | Diners Find Good Eating During Muskrat Season | Diners Find Good Eating During Muskrat Season
Nancy Bailey walked out of Mary Etta’s Family Restaurant, grinning like the proverbial cat who swallowed the canary. But the main course wasn’t bird, it was rat--muskrat.
“I’m 54 and I’ve been eating them since I was old enough to know what they were,” said Bailey of Sudler... |
7e0c7fd6a4b48f0fb9eb402381fa7c95 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1993-02-16-sp-290-story.html | PRO FOOTBALL / BOB OATES : L.A. Shrank, Super Bowl Expanded | PRO FOOTBALL / BOB OATES : L.A. Shrank, Super Bowl Expanded
For those recalling that five Super Bowl games have been played in the Rose Bowl, here is today’s quick quiz:
First, name the year when public interest was the largest.
Second, in what year was the crowd the smallest?
Quiet, please, for a moment of reflection.... |
0b1001bde0d9ecfd2ecce4dffd398089 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1993-02-21-ca-603-story.html | 2PAC “Strictly 4 My N.I.G.G.AZ . . .” Interscope | 2PAC “Strictly 4 My N.I.G.G.AZ . . .” Interscope
** 1/2 Demonized by law enforcement associations, vilified by Quayle, endorsed by First Amendment crusaders everywhere, rapper-actor 2Pac entered the front rank of gangsta hip-hop a year or so ago when a Texan allegedly killed a police officer while listening to a 2Pac t... |
6545ba587a8babae428d1497d8b0e46c | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1993-02-25-vl-928-story.html | MUSIC / DAVE WAKELING & THE FREE RADICALS : The Beat Goes On : The British singer will return to Santa Barbara with his latest band for a show at the Beach Shack. | MUSIC / DAVE WAKELING & THE FREE RADICALS : The Beat Goes On : The British singer will return to Santa Barbara with his latest band for a show at the Beach Shack.
Suppose your favorite band’s creative differences reached the critical stage and the whole thing went ka-blooey, thus ruining your wallpaper and your finance... |
13227b3da0464967d876b0f926aa5e91 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1993-03-02-mn-83-story.html | Sexual Harassment Flap Tops Agenda of Alaska Lawmakers | Sexual Harassment Flap Tops Agenda of Alaska Lawmakers
The whole thing started with a 4:30 a.m. call to police.
An Alaska state senator, George Jacko, was on the line. He said he was a state legislator and wanted the police to help him get into the motel room of a female legislative aide. The dispatcher asked why.
“It’... |
e1e4d325f321d3ac9e935c1ff32812c6 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1993-03-14-ca-541-story.html | MOVIES : AIDS, Death and... | MOVIES : AIDS, Death and...
“Fake death is OK in the movies,” says filmmaker Peter Friedman. “People like to be scared as long as they know they’re safe. Real death is OK too in terms of the nightly news--piles of corpses of people that we’ll never know. But this is different.”
This is “Silverlake Life: The View From H... |
19dd80161663630045824ded2172f449 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1993-03-17-vw-11995-story.html | Not That Old Saw! Bowman Makes Tools Sing New Tune | Not That Old Saw! Bowman Makes Tools Sing New Tune
“Don’t hold it that way; you’ll saw the hairs right off!” Jim Leonard said with a mixture of bemusement and alarm.
Perhaps I could be forgiven, inasmuch as most of us can count on one hand the number of times when we’re simultaneously holding a saw and a violin bow. Le... |
41fbdc85ed76d332fd6a47b092d973a3 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1993-03-21-tv-13317-story.html | WITH AN EYE ON ... : Corey Parker’s flights of comedy earn him frequent laughs on Fox | WITH AN EYE ON ... : Corey Parker’s flights of comedy earn him frequent laughs on Fox
Work in television is what currently puts meals on Corey Parker’s table. He’s co-star in the sitcom “Flying Blind,” which just finished its debut season on Fox in the rather unfortunate time slot of 10 p.m. Sundays.
Parker plays recen... |
d5bef1679852237ce914719925c075b5 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1993-03-23-fi-14235-story.html | How Wireless Poses Threat to Cellular Firms : Telecommunications: A lack of FCC restrictions means foreign investment could pour into the new technology. | How Wireless Poses Threat to Cellular Firms : Telecommunications: A lack of FCC restrictions means foreign investment could pour into the new technology.
Cellular telephones, which took a beating on Wall Street in response to a recent cancer scare, will soon face another threat to their rapid growth: the launch of new ... |
9fd838046e02447c87b123c661b752ae | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1993-03-24-mn-14578-story.html | THE TIMES POLL : Public Delivers Stinging Assessment of Governor | THE TIMES POLL : Public Delivers Stinging Assessment of Governor
Just as he revs up his bid for reelection in 1994, Gov. Pete Wilson has come in for a strong slap across the face from the California electorate: According to a Los Angeles Times poll, the governor is dramatically unpopular and his Republican Party contin... |
2f6c17b799c23a439d0cdfb4e273400f | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1993-03-30-fi-17004-story.html | Triumphant Murdoch Buys N.Y. Post--Again : Media: The magnate is optimistic that he’ll get a waiver from federal rules that forced him to sell the paper five years ago. | Triumphant Murdoch Buys N.Y. Post--Again : Media: The magnate is optimistic that he’ll get a waiver from federal rules that forced him to sell the paper five years ago.
Pledging to shake up “the entrenched interests that have done so much damage to this city,” Australian-born media mogul Rupert Murdoch on Monday reassu... |
007030922a0b012112d7e2dfd3dc08af | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1993-03-31-ca-17262-story.html | Silent Film’s Third Genius : Harold Lloyd Put on His Glasses--and Made Film History | Silent Film’s Third Genius : Harold Lloyd Put on His Glasses--and Made Film History
He has gone into film history as the Third Genius--third only to Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton as a master of silent comedy. Harold Lloyd, of the neat suits, horn-rimmed glasses and the kind of flat straw hat called a boater, actual... |
938b95acde9ae30d42b19ad0e0aeb427 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1993-03-31-mn-17231-story.html | Cult Leader’s Lawyer Enters Besieged Compound : Standoff: The face-to-face talks with Houston attorney raise hopes that monthlong stalemate may end soon. | Cult Leader’s Lawyer Enters Besieged Compound : Standoff: The face-to-face talks with Houston attorney raise hopes that monthlong stalemate may end soon.
The lawyer for David Koresh met with the cult leader inside his armed compound Tuesday in an effort to persuade him to end the monthlong standoff with federal agents.... |
f0f2567521a8cd2897e6a057653a459e | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1993-04-10-me-21318-story.html | Passover Festival Seeks to Unite Different Faiths and Cultures | Passover Festival Seeks to Unite Different Faiths and Cultures
Ruth Broyde-Sharon and Delores Gray have a mission.
Broyde-Sharon, a Jewish documentary filmmaker, and Gray, an African-American minister, hope to unite African-Americans and Jews through the celebration of Passover, the Jewish holiday commemorating the anc... |
3e34f7f4f20569619803acee485dc035 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1993-04-13-me-22427-story.html | Ex-Sheriff’s Sergeant Cites Fatal Scott Raid in Theft Accusation | Ex-Sheriff’s Sergeant Cites Fatal Scott Raid in Theft Accusation
A former Los Angeles County sheriff’s sergeant said Monday that the Sheriff’s Department “stole $60 million” through forfeiture laws in 1988 and 1989 and that he believes the practice continues because of recent accusations of impropriety in the 1992 drug... |
7469b38a8c75b5878c0ed3939dc738dd | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1993-04-15-ca-23038-story.html | CBS, ABC Announce Kids’ Slate | CBS, ABC Announce Kids’ Slate
CBS and ABC will each introduce four new Saturday morning series in the fall, the networks announced Wednesday.
Joining the CBS schedule are three animated series, “Marsupilami,” a Walt Disney Co. production about an exotic jungle creature; “Cadillacs and Dinosaurs,” in which an ecologist ... |
b6f7f19ae282b9961ecd0fd8d06692b3 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1993-04-17-mn-24034-story.html | AP Reporter Among 15 Dead in Afghan Helicopter Crash | AP Reporter Among 15 Dead in Afghan Helicopter Crash
A military helicopter crashed Friday in northern Afghanistan and killed all 15 people on board, including Associated Press reporter Sharon Herbaugh, aid workers said.
Herbaugh, 39, was chief of the AP bureau in Islamabad, Pakistan, and had for more than four years co... |
badeaab39ba5e39b3c3bb28d1e49df16 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1993-04-18-ca-24113-story.html | MOVIES : A flurry of... | MOVIES : A flurry of...
In Adrian Lyne’s new film, “Indecent Proposal,” billionaire playboy Robert Redford comes to visit Demi Moore at her realty company. As he walks into her office, we catch a glimpse of Moore’s secretary, a blond bimbo busily filing her nails and reading “Backlash,” Susan Faludi’s 1991 expose of th... |
869815daa975afb09b7a3d9a03310966 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1993-04-18-mn-24442-story.html | Medical Examiner Retires ‘Early,’ at 80 : Chicago: Cook County pathologist with 36 years on job has been involved in cases ranging from mass murderer Speck to cyanide-laced Tylenol. | Medical Examiner Retires ‘Early,’ at 80 : Chicago: Cook County pathologist with 36 years on job has been involved in cases ranging from mass murderer Speck to cyanide-laced Tylenol.
Pathologist Robert Stein has been a doctor of death for Cook County for 36 years.
He was on the job when Richard Speck killed eight studen... |
84c5dd17184bd45af45bd90729b93669 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1993-04-18-re-24277-story.html | Stair Wars : With accidents costing the U.S. $10 billion to $12 billion a year, safety experts are urging change in home stair design while builders decry cost. | Stair Wars : With accidents costing the U.S. $10 billion to $12 billion a year, safety experts are urging change in home stair design while builders decry cost.
A poor devil has ended his cares
At the foot of your rotten-runged rat-riddled stairs?
--Robert Browning
Frankly, stairs are risky business.
When Scarlett O’Ha... |
c9feab613a5c6eab750cc9f7faf336ae | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1993-04-20-ca-25103-story.html | Bravo for ‘Normal Heart’ | Bravo for ‘Normal Heart’
Once the applause had stopped, once the high emotion abated slightly, the audience packed into the Broadhurst Theater on Sunday for a benefit reading of Larry Kramer’s “The Normal Heart” was nearly unanimous in agreeing that Eric Bogosian should play Ned Weeks, the role that represents the play... |
2df5d7104da0f0341afc64d2eb603dfc | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1993-04-21-me-25290-story.html | Gay Couple Challenge State Laws on Marriage : Courts: They sue county in effort to obtain license. Attorney says test is first of California law. | Gay Couple Challenge State Laws on Marriage : Courts: They sue county in effort to obtain license. Attorney says test is first of California law.
Benjamin Cable and Marcial McCarthy had a traditional church wedding two years ago in nearly every sense: stretch limousine, flower-carrying bridesmaids and groomsmen, exchan... |
1b42cddd031f30c7e99a3b9712eb96b6 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1993-04-21-vw-25442-story.html | A Push for Visibility : New Collection of Writings Addresses Problems of Gay South Asians | A Push for Visibility : New Collection of Writings Addresses Problems of Gay South Asians
Rakesh Ratti wanted to publish the book that might have freed him from an anguished youth in a rural Northern California town. The youngest of seven children of farmers from North India, the 34-year-old writer grew up in Yuba City... |
4ae17f4c8389b14dd4d99139f4300183 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1993-04-23-vw-26296-story.html | Writers at Forum Ponder Their Roles as Moral Guardians : Debate: At Jerusalem book fair, literary leaders conclude that conscience must inform their work, but should not be their primary function. | Writers at Forum Ponder Their Roles as Moral Guardians : Debate: At Jerusalem book fair, literary leaders conclude that conscience must inform their work, but should not be their primary function.
The invitation to be “the conscience of the world” may have seemed like one any writer would accept. Here was a chance to d... |
ad66756e43f4e1dd4bcf17cb5a02b67e | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1993-04-29-mn-28525-story.html | Women at Miramar Hail Combat Ruling : Pilots: Their male counterparts accept the decision also. Some female fliers already have their hearts set on training for various aircraft. | Women at Miramar Hail Combat Ruling : Pilots: Their male counterparts accept the decision also. Some female fliers already have their hearts set on training for various aircraft.
Female pilots at Miramar Naval Air Station were exultant and male pilots were accepting Wednesday when Secretary of Defense Les Aspin announc... |
c98aedef6fc1bdde49b33ac915568b35 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1993-04-30-vw-29353-story.html | A Film Premiere Tempered by Loss : Memories: Brandon Lee’s death made the opening of Bruce Lee’s bio a poignant event. But the elder Lee’s widow said it was a tribute to both. | A Film Premiere Tempered by Loss : Memories: Brandon Lee’s death made the opening of Bruce Lee’s bio a poignant event. But the elder Lee’s widow said it was a tribute to both.
The word that came up repeatedly at the premiere of Universal’s “Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story” Wednesday at Mann’s Chinese was bittersweet .
Temp... |
6ce0e33ff4074d68021eb580e1719b10 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1993-05-01-ca-29784-story.html | Vince Neil Steps Out With a Whole New Crue | Vince Neil Steps Out With a Whole New Crue
Rock singer Vince Neil’s eagerness to discuss his new solo album, “Exposed,” was put on hold for a moment. First he had to set the record straight on another issue: why he was fired by Motley Crue after 11 years as the Los Angeles-based hard-rock band’s lead singer.
“Despite w... |
99074d2acf6770badc38112c2aa28807 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1993-05-02-ca-29989-story.html | MOVIES : Clinton’s Card : When ‘Dave’ screenwriter Gary Ross isn’t turning out jokes for a president and other politicos, he is glorifying the little guy, sometimes in a ‘Big’ way | MOVIES : Clinton’s Card : When ‘Dave’ screenwriter Gary Ross isn’t turning out jokes for a president and other politicos, he is glorifying the little guy, sometimes in a ‘Big’ way
If he weren’t such a funny guy, says his friend Paul Begala, his lines would be spoken only by actors.
Which is not so terrible. The last ti... |
a281934c8a11a7c9e584151f969b75ad | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1993-05-02-tv-30036-story.html | ‘Ghostwriter’ wages war against toxic waste and offers pointers for kids | ‘Ghostwriter’ wages war against toxic waste and offers pointers for kids
With Earth Day still resonating, Ghostwriter presents a new four-part mystery, “Over a Barrel,” in which the Ghostwriter team takes action to clean up a toxic-dump site in their community.
When neighborhood folks become ill, Gaby (Mayteana Morales... |
4ea61bb92de16fca4e3c6af9579f20a5 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1993-05-09-tm-33022-story.html | THE NOT-SO-SWEET SCIENCE OF SELLING OSCAR DE LA HOYA | THE NOT-SO-SWEET SCIENCE OF SELLING OSCAR DE LA HOYA
Two hours before his fight and he stands alone on a rainy night in the drab gray lobby of a Phoenix hotel, staring not so much at as through a door, looking into nothingness, unaware of watching admirers. Two women, summoning their courage for the past five minutes, ... |
0e1880fec0eb9b8db490bf2c9093e19d | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1993-05-10-me-33684-story.html | Gorky’s Goes Way of Soviet Union: It’s History | Gorky’s Goes Way of Soviet Union: It’s History
The “foodski, funski and brewski” are gone-ski. Gorky’s is kaput.
Twelve years after downtown’s best-known bohemian hangout opened in the name of cheap java for the working class, Gorky’s Cafe and Russian Brewery has quietly shut down, leaving nothing but the coffeepot and... |
d9838f328687cc7995ed4c4ad623f747 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1993-05-11-ca-34129-story.html | Weekend Box Office : ‘Dragon’ Makes ‘Dave’ Vice President | Weekend Box Office : ‘Dragon’ Makes ‘Dave’ Vice President
Early May is always a slow period for moviegoing--sort of the lull before the big summer releases. But into this gap came “Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story,” which scored an impressive $10 million in its debut. Not nearly as big as openings in busier seasons, the $15... |
7541c2fc2513e12a0e348d04991a38d6 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1993-05-11-fi-33955-story.html | ‘Bruce’ and ‘Dave’s’ Excellent Box Office | ‘Bruce’ and ‘Dave’s’ Excellent Box Office
When it comes to marketing movies in Hollywood, there are few tougher sells than biography and political satire. Even dead but still sexy rock stars such as Jim Morrison have a hard time drawing crowds when their stories are told on film.
So audiences went against type last wee... |
612b34bc51d92a0fe46b5ee2ba22c42d | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1993-05-11-mn-33815-story.html | Florida’s Plague: Sick Building Syndrome : Months after opening, one courthouse had moldy walls and workers complaining of nausea and headaches. The problem is widespread in the humid state--and the cure can be costly. | Florida’s Plague: Sick Building Syndrome : Months after opening, one courthouse had moldy walls and workers complaining of nausea and headaches. The problem is widespread in the humid state--and the cure can be costly.
It cost almost $11 million to build and when it was finished, the Martin County Courthouse complex wa... |
55fbace85be93bdd776a3b34404ca376 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1993-05-13-mn-34717-story.html | New UFW Leader Urges Stronger Grape Boycott : Labor: Arturo S. Rodriguez, successor to Cesar Chavez, speaks in Denver. He also calls for better worker contracts and improved protections against pesticides. | New UFW Leader Urges Stronger Grape Boycott : Labor: Arturo S. Rodriguez, successor to Cesar Chavez, speaks in Denver. He also calls for better worker contracts and improved protections against pesticides.
The new president of the United Farm Workers union on Wednesday called for an escalation of a six-year boycott of ... |
da634fdea637dd1574e7cffb324c02e5 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1993-05-16-mn-36203-story.html | Janet Reno Emerges From Waco Disaster a Folk Hero | Janet Reno Emerges From Waco Disaster a Folk Hero
Since taking responsibility for the federal action that ended in a fiery disaster at a cult compound in Waco, Tex., Atty. Gen. Janet Reno has emerged as a folk hero, the closest thing the Clinton Cabinet has to a star.
The federal assault she authorized precipitated the... |
a5264c8748e5fe09a6c35c37538a1441 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1993-05-20-ca-37642-story.html | She’s Really Married to the Mob : Television: Rosalie Bonanno’s story comes to CBS as a miniseries. ‘They thought I had a story women would identify with . . . a woman’s side of (that) world.’ | She’s Really Married to the Mob : Television: Rosalie Bonanno’s story comes to CBS as a miniseries. ‘They thought I had a story women would identify with . . . a woman’s side of (that) world.’
For a fleeting moment in an early frame of CBS’ miniseries “Love, Honor and Obey: The Last Mafia Marriage,” the real Rosalie Bo... |
cbc3c101c439a791bc29f6168ebb5abd | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1993-05-21-me-37803-story.html | Billionaire Boys Club Bodyguard Admits Slaying in TV Interview : Murder: The man who has twice escaped conviction for the crime says he shot a con man to help a club member. He says he cannot be tried again. | Billionaire Boys Club Bodyguard Admits Slaying in TV Interview : Murder: The man who has twice escaped conviction for the crime says he shot a con man to help a club member. He says he cannot be tried again.
Billionaire Boys Club bodyguard Jim Pittman, who twice eluded conviction on charges that he killed Beverly Hills... |
13cc9ccf56d8085b28e0990e4740f95d | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1993-05-21-va-37959-story.html | Giving Voice to Blue-Collar Poems : Harry Northup says dual life gives him perfect blend of fantasy and introspection. | Giving Voice to Blue-Collar Poems : Harry Northup says dual life gives him perfect blend of fantasy and introspection.
In 1966, as a struggling New York actor, Harry Northup survived on a few bucks an hour and any dream he could find.
He had been a star in his hometown of Sidney, Neb.--population 8,000--but this was Ne... |
c09ffdfff021c9a09b2075b9b288a517 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1993-05-21-vw-37749-story.html | Nothing to Get Excited About | Nothing to Get Excited About
The Movie: “Much Ado About Nothing”
The Setup: Director Kenneth Branagh’s interpretation of William Shakespeare’s twin tales of romance, one prickly--between Benedick (Branagh) and Beatrice (Emma Thompson, pictured, left, with Kate Beckinsale)--and one pleasant, though highly complex--betwe... |
d32d2fedbbbe784b79e96bc1e430b909 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1993-05-22-me-38436-story.html | WEST HOLLYWOOD : Court Denies Gay Couple’s Marriage License Petition | WEST HOLLYWOOD : Court Denies Gay Couple’s Marriage License Petition
A state appellate court has rejected a request by two gay men seeking a marriage license.
In a one-sentence ruling issued Monday, the 2nd District State Court of Appeal in Los Angeles denied a writ of mandate petition filed by a West Hollywood gay cou... |
72534adcb8196972092121c7c801fc6b | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1993-05-24-ca-39251-story.html | Bacharach and David: Reconciled and Honored : Music: After an acrimonious split, the look of love is again in their eyes. They receive ASCAP’s Founders Award tonight. | Bacharach and David: Reconciled and Honored : Music: After an acrimonious split, the look of love is again in their eyes. They receive ASCAP’s Founders Award tonight.
“It was a very messy situation--and a very unfortunate time,” said Burt Bacharach.
Looking back on the 10-year hiatus during which he only talked “throug... |
37d45b4a563e60ce2024428609d2a6c6 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1993-05-26-ca-39821-story.html | TV Ratings : Surprise! ‘Cheers’ Finale Powers NBC to Top | TV Ratings : Surprise! ‘Cheers’ Finale Powers NBC to Top
‘Cheers” sent NBC’s ratings soaring last week, the A. C. Nielsen Co. reported Tuesday. The final episode of the barroom comedy attracted the second-largest audience for a regularly scheduled broadcast in TV history and also packed people in for the programs that ... |
9d6509bc26f19d441f45baa56cc5c7f6 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1993-05-26-me-40043-story.html | Reputed Hit Man Given 8-Year Sentence : Crime: Mobster allegedly organized a botched murder-for-hire scheme targeting a Lake Forest man. | Reputed Hit Man Given 8-Year Sentence : Crime: Mobster allegedly organized a botched murder-for-hire scheme targeting a Lake Forest man.
A reputed hit man was sentenced Tuesday to eight years in federal prison for his role in a botched murder-for-hire scheme that was organized by an alleged Las Vegas mobster.
Blake Yoo... |
4aae426fb5ffc9aa113a3f20f21f602c | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1993-05-28-fi-40898-story.html | Mexico’s NAFTA Lobbying Called a Record : Trade: Meanwhile, the White House is considering action to counteract Ross Perot’s opposition to the accord. | Mexico’s NAFTA Lobbying Called a Record : Trade: Meanwhile, the White House is considering action to counteract Ross Perot’s opposition to the accord.
The Mexican government has unleashed the most expensive and elaborate foreign lobbying campaign ever undertaken here, hoping to ensure passage of the trade agreement it ... |
6a0110957901dc8392e105edd581335f | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1993-06-05-me-43616-story.html | SHERMAN OAKS : Memorabilia Score Big With Kings’ Fans | SHERMAN OAKS : Memorabilia Score Big With Kings’ Fans
Barbara Buck is a true Kings fan. Her loyalties date back to the years of interminable losses. She buys the hockey team’s T-shirts, its hats, and her garb from head to toe is silver and black.
But she draws the line at the “puck head.”
“I don’t think I would wear th... |
62821543b63f30e78799e5fccaf4267e | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1993-06-10-ca-1719-story.html | Spielberg’s ‘Dog’ Finally Has Its Day : But Is CBS Throwing a Bone by Unleashing the Series in Summer? | Spielberg’s ‘Dog’ Finally Has Its Day : But Is CBS Throwing a Bone by Unleashing the Series in Summer?
With all eyes turned to this week’s opening of the summer dinosaur epic “Jurassic Park,” news of another high-profile project from director Steven Spielberg has gone almost unnoticed.
Anyone remember “Family Dog”?
CBS... |
7b5ba19d43c9b85d0a4ef0b38d967dc9 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1993-06-12-mn-2405-story.html | Soviet Plan to Assassinate Tito Told : Europe: Secret service had assigned an agent to kill the former Yugoslav leader, a senior Yeltsin adviser says. The murder was never attempted. | Soviet Plan to Assassinate Tito Told : Europe: Secret service had assigned an agent to kill the former Yugoslav leader, a senior Yeltsin adviser says. The murder was never attempted.
Soviet agents planned to assassinate former Yugoslav leader Josip Broz Tito in the 1950s using lethal bacteria or a poisoned jewel box, a... |
33ad298fa22e50121ee6373a8b83b1f5 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1993-06-13-op-2860-story.html | COLUMN RIGHT / BOB DOLE : Make It Year of the Taxpayer, Not of the Tax : Voters in Texas have sent a message to Washington: Cut spending first. | COLUMN RIGHT / BOB DOLE : Make It Year of the Taxpayer, Not of the Tax : Voters in Texas have sent a message to Washington: Cut spending first.
1993 should be the Year of the Taxpayer. But if the Senate can’t muster enough courage to defeat President Clinton’s $275-billion tax-increase plan, 1993 will be remembered sim... |
0976d1f86c7e7fee4fd756972e201647 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1993-06-15-fi-3283-story.html | Does Cosby Have Ingredients for NBC Purchase? | Does Cosby Have Ingredients for NBC Purchase?
As Dr. Clifford Huxtable for eight years on NBC, Bill Cosby was capable of delivering everything from babies to homespun wisdom. But one thing Cosby can’t deliver, Hollywood and Wall Street sources say, is a deal giving him control of his network home.
Rumors of Cosby buyin... |
8f368c1cad140f21a49ad80dc6da2894 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1993-06-15-vw-3413-story.html | Power Lunch? : They ate a salad. They went into labor. And another urban myth is born. | Power Lunch? : They ate a salad. They went into labor. And another urban myth is born.
Pam Pepper wanted exactly what every pregnant, overdue woman wants--contractions, lots of them, so she could welcome her bundle of joy and finally see her toes again.
But there she was last October, two days after her due date, with ... |
86190127eb2d1e489e5cc1c0d6522102 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1993-06-18-ca-4520-story.html | Color Barney Green After EMI Records Group Deal : Children’s recordings: The purple dinosaur’s ‘multi-year, multi-album’ deal is for ‘seven figures,’ firm’s CEO says. Barney’s first album is due in August. | Color Barney Green After EMI Records Group Deal : Children’s recordings: The purple dinosaur’s ‘multi-year, multi-album’ deal is for ‘seven figures,’ firm’s CEO says. Barney’s first album is due in August.
How does a certain purple dinosaur spell success?
E-M-I Records Group.
Barney, star of public TV’s mega-hit childr... |
38080375517ba22f0e4267c6dcf1087d | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1993-06-18-mn-4379-story.html | Limelight, Cameras, ‘Action’ for O.C. Boy : Movies: ‘Hero’ co-star Austin O’Brien is full partner in media blitz. | Limelight, Cameras, ‘Action’ for O.C. Boy : Movies: ‘Hero’ co-star Austin O’Brien is full partner in media blitz.
Behind a nondescript glass doorway and up a flight of creaky wooden stairs in the East Village, some of the hottest child stars in the country are crammed into a giant wooden popcorn box.
Smiling or laughin... |
0bdde2ef1c72b506059d3ccaed490ced | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1993-06-18-mn-4414-story.html | Ex-Official Pleads Guilty in HUD Corruption Probe | Ex-Official Pleads Guilty in HUD Corruption Probe
The long-running investigation into fraud and corruption in the Ronald Reagan Administration’s Department of Housing and Urban Development brought down its highest former official Thursday when Thomas T. Demery, once the department’s No. 3 executive, pleaded guilty to r... |
66b8851c5b1c8ee19c0e0792178f4d2f | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1993-06-20-bk-4957-story.html | Jealous Gods : LENIN’S TOMB: Russia and the Fall of Communism, <i> By David Remnick (Random House: $25; 512 pp.)</i> | Jealous Gods : LENIN’S TOMB: Russia and the Fall of Communism, <i> By David Remnick (Random House: $25; 512 pp.)</i>
Totalitarian regimes live not just by violence, but by mystery. The most effective dictators are the ones who remain unseen, whose power is exercised from behind high walls. Their terror reaches perfecti... |
20c4e4cfb46328ce9ecf219d4e0a58e2 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1993-06-20-ca-5039-story.html | A Woman’s Place: Ruling the Kitchen | A Woman’s Place: Ruling the Kitchen
“The reality is that until there are more women as executive chefs,” says Barbara Lazaroff, “there will be less women hired in kitchens and less going into the restaurant industry.”
We’ve been reading so much lately about women chefs, it seems as if they’re everywhere. But the Year o... |
5f0ea4affa71e09623f68cc7f568e52c | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1993-06-20-ca-5091-story.html | The End of the Age of Innocence : Janet Jackson is pop’s most material girl now. In addition to all her power and money, she’s added a new component: sex | The End of the Age of Innocence : Janet Jackson is pop’s most material girl now. In addition to all her power and money, she’s added a new component: sex
Janet Jackson has plenty of time on the set of her new video to talk--about Michael, LaToya and a favorite new subject: sex.
The pop world’s highest paid female recor... |
848dea27bcb8ab96eece757798385470 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1993-06-20-ca-5093-story.html | FILM COMMENT : John Ford’s Monument : ‘The Searchers’ may or may not be the greatest Western of all time, but it’s certainly the most influential one of our time | FILM COMMENT : John Ford’s Monument : ‘The Searchers’ may or may not be the greatest Western of all time, but it’s certainly the most influential one of our time
To know “The Searchers” is to love it. Or is it?
Directed by the venerable John Ford and starring John Wayne at his strongest and strangest, this, the most ce... |
01aeb71aaf10746e12cb524505d5b610 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1993-06-20-op-4952-story.html | Cynicism vs. the Politics of Meaning : Hillary Clinton doesn’t deserve the media’s sneers for saying what most Americans feel. | Cynicism vs. the Politics of Meaning : Hillary Clinton doesn’t deserve the media’s sneers for saying what most Americans feel.
I thought that Bill and Hillary Clinton were exaggerating about press hostility toward them until I experienced it myself. Mrs. Clinton recently criticized the way American society rewards self... |
4d982bc49086da67473d194be6ae33fe | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1993-06-21-ca-5450-story.html | ‘Hero’: When $15 Million Isn’t Quite Enough : Movie box office: By Hollywood standards, the Arnold Schwarzenegger vehicle opens poorly. But Columbia is ‘very, very, very happy with it.’ | ‘Hero’: When $15 Million Isn’t Quite Enough : Movie box office: By Hollywood standards, the Arnold Schwarzenegger vehicle opens poorly. But Columbia is ‘very, very, very happy with it.’
If Columbia Pictures hadn’t spent something like $80 million to produce “Last Action Hero,” and if the fantasy-action film didn’t star... |
fae68570dbbb824fa24b7ccd236c7070 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1993-06-24-mn-6643-story.html | House OKs Space Station by 1 Vote : Science: Close 216-215 tally is a shock to backers of project. Stiff opposition is attributed to budget-cutting frenzy on Capitol Hill and 114 new lawmakers. | House OKs Space Station by 1 Vote : Science: Close 216-215 tally is a shock to backers of project. Stiff opposition is attributed to budget-cutting frenzy on Capitol Hill and 114 new lawmakers.
By the slimmest of margins, the House voted Wednesday to build a scaled-back space station, but the narrow victory was a shock... |
27ee857558e739bf9c956850d3c22c1b | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1993-06-25-mn-7044-story.html | Mail Bomb Attack Leaves Yale Computer Scientist in Critical Condition : Explosion: Authorities are investigating to see if there are links to blast that injured California genetics researcher earlier in the week. | Mail Bomb Attack Leaves Yale Computer Scientist in Critical Condition : Explosion: Authorities are investigating to see if there are links to blast that injured California genetics researcher earlier in the week.
In the second incident of its kind this week, a mail bomb exploded Thursday and severely injured a noted sc... |
efa63c3ba84cc269fe08bc04284bd7cc | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1993-06-26-mn-7403-story.html | Rightists Lay Siege to S. Africa Talks : Violence: Armed whites storm negotiations site. Mandela charges that police were slow to act. | Rightists Lay Siege to S. Africa Talks : Violence: Armed whites storm negotiations site. Mandela charges that police were slow to act.
In a brazen attempt to thwart constitutional negotiations, several hundred white extremists stormed the talks site here Friday, waving shotguns and handguns, spray-painting slogans on t... |
69b6a11fad50512fdf2cd8c6241757b5 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1993-06-27-ca-7585-story.html | INTERVIEW : A New Turn for ‘Sunset Boulevard’ : Billy Wilder dismisses rumors that he’s unhappy about the adaptation of his film. It was a ‘wonderful surprise,’ he says | INTERVIEW : A New Turn for ‘Sunset Boulevard’ : Billy Wilder dismisses rumors that he’s unhappy about the adaptation of his film. It was a ‘wonderful surprise,’ he says
Previews finally start tomorrow in London, after two weeks’ delay caused by technical problems, of the most eagerly awaited stage musical in several ye... |
8b6a4d2af3ebc9fa07b5a1a79d094150 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1993-06-27-ca-7586-story.html | FILM COMMENT : Endangered Species : The American action-fantasy epic is in danger of becoming terminally musclebound and knuckleheaded | FILM COMMENT : Endangered Species : The American action-fantasy epic is in danger of becoming terminally musclebound and knuckleheaded
Arnold Schwarzenegger, Sylvester Stallone and Steven Spielberg--Hollywood’s mega-mass triumvirate--have each returned from a heavy workout at the pec deck with their challenge cups: “La... |
da39b647c938215f48b8ec936435c8f4 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1993-07-01-me-9035-story.html | Study Profiles Typical Homeless: 37, White, Male | Study Profiles Typical Homeless: 37, White, Male
Homeless people in Orange County are typically white, male, single, high school graduates, about 37 years old and residents of the county for at least two years, a study released Wednesday has found.
Advocates for homeless people praised the study, considered to be the m... |
eb717677c8b24e23e15f14b533fa5a2e | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1993-07-04-mn-9908-story.html | POW’s Homecoming a Picture of Joy, but a Tapestry of Sadness : Vietnam: Photo of Bob Stirm and family won Pulitzer Prize and symbolized end of war. But to him, it evokes bitterness and betrayal. | POW’s Homecoming a Picture of Joy, but a Tapestry of Sadness : Vietnam: Photo of Bob Stirm and family won Pulitzer Prize and symbolized end of war. But to him, it evokes bitterness and betrayal.
His older daughter is racing to meet him, arms outstretched, both feet off the ground, face split wide in a giddy smile. Clos... |
0ffe175bb3a332973d9f36576fab4985 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1993-07-04-sp-9993-story.html | Let’s Play Two--Until 4:40 in Morning : Baseball: Phillies and Padres keep going through the night after umpires wait through three rain delays. Each team wins one game. | Let’s Play Two--Until 4:40 in Morning : Baseball: Phillies and Padres keep going through the night after umpires wait through three rain delays. Each team wins one game.
Had the Philadelphia Phillies and San Diego Padres played much longer, they could have turned out the lights. It would have been daybreak.
The teams b... |
8738f00cee5d11c408478c96c40775c7 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1993-07-05-mn-10252-story.html | Tujunga Golf Project Finds Tycoon Deep in the Rough : Business: Japanese entrepreneur lost $340 million in Pebble Beach deal. He faces FBI money-laundering probe. | Tujunga Golf Project Finds Tycoon Deep in the Rough : Business: Japanese entrepreneur lost $340 million in Pebble Beach deal. He faces FBI money-laundering probe.
Japanese golf tycoon Minoru Isutani may have been vanquished at Pebble Beach, but now he’s back.
Contrary to rumors of his financial demise, Isutani’s corpor... |
fef474de93a11ff03cac71cacd8afd7a | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1993-07-10-sp-11716-story.html | Just One Step Away : Phil Nevin Is Doing Well at Triple-A Tucson; His Move Up to Houston Seems Right on Schedule | Just One Step Away : Phil Nevin Is Doing Well at Triple-A Tucson; His Move Up to Houston Seems Right on Schedule
Runner on second, two outs, bottom of the ninth, tie game. These are the pressure situations Phil Nevin lives for, the ones he usually thrives on.
His first professional season has been no different for the ... |
a8a43d2d38a52f56f9de5a34f64563b6 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1993-07-11-mn-12212-story.html | 16 Anti-Abortion Protesters Arrested in San Jose : Rally: Picketers taking part in Operation Rescue’s nationwide effort are accused of targeting a doctor’s home. | 16 Anti-Abortion Protesters Arrested in San Jose : Rally: Picketers taking part in Operation Rescue’s nationwide effort are accused of targeting a doctor’s home.
Challenging a new law enacted to protect clinic workers, 16 anti-abortion protesters were arrested Saturday on charges of picketing outside the home of a doct... |
f25759b92a75a5ec6a67e1e40120188d | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1993-07-14-me-13051-story.html | ‘Rainbow Man’ Sentenced to 3 Life Terms : Crime: Rollen Stewart, known for his bizarre wig and religious placards, is convicted of taking over a hotel room at LAX and holding a maid hostage. | ‘Rainbow Man’ Sentenced to 3 Life Terms : Crime: Rollen Stewart, known for his bizarre wig and religious placards, is convicted of taking over a hotel room at LAX and holding a maid hostage.
Rollen Frederick Stewart--known to millions as “Rainbow Man” because he wore multicolored wigs as he flashed religious placards a... |
3c2792205d8429a3319dbccf9b04d900 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1993-07-16-ca-13534-story.html | Theater Reviews : ‘Five Guys Named Moe’: Thin Book, Huge Party | Theater Reviews : ‘Five Guys Named Moe’: Thin Book, Huge Party
The program calls it a musical party and if “Five Guys Named Moe” is anything, it’s that: a big party with conga lines, sing-alongs and enough high spirits to send a small rocket into orbit.
But this joint presentation of Center Theatre Group/Ahmanson in as... |
073c86cd32981ed671bbe043c0f14b36 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1993-07-20-mn-15027-story.html | 4 Years After Death, Marcos’ Body to Go Home for Burial | 4 Years After Death, Marcos’ Body to Go Home for Burial
Four years after he died in Hawaii, the body of former Philippine President Ferdinand E. Marcos will be flown back to his hometown in northern Luzon on Sept. 5 for an above-ground interment, the family said Monday.
The late strongman has been kept in an air-condit... |
e2fb6617830093f21297a7c62483244c | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1993-07-25-bk-16579-story.html | Unintelligent Counterintelligence : DEADLY ILLUSIONS: The KGB Orlov Dossier--Stalin’s Master Spy, <i> By John Costello and Oleg Tsarev (Crown Publishers: $25; 512 pp.)</i> | Unintelligent Counterintelligence : DEADLY ILLUSIONS: The KGB Orlov Dossier--Stalin’s Master Spy, <i> By John Costello and Oleg Tsarev (Crown Publishers: $25; 512 pp.)</i>
One of the authors of this book, John Costello, is a British historian; the other, Oleg Tsarev, is a former KGB officer who is now a consultant for ... |
70e6888fd0c9621706c50cc0f0169fcf | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1993-07-27-sp-17486-story.html | Lights Are Brighter, and the Heat Hotter | Lights Are Brighter, and the Heat Hotter
If I can make it there, I’ll make it anywhere,
It’s up to you, New York, New York!
From “New York, New York,” by Fred Ebb and John Kander
*
Yeah, but what if you don’t make it there?
It’s possible. Just ask Robert Martin Antonio Bonilla. Before coming to New York a year ago, Mas... |
33164cacf66c1208394d560f7f937d86 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1993-07-28-mn-17823-story.html | $8-Billion Loss Posted by IBM; More Layoffs Set | $8-Billion Loss Posted by IBM; More Layoffs Set
Hoping to cure itself with one last, huge gulp of bitter medicine, IBM on Tuesday announced an $8-billion second-quarter loss and the elimination of 35,000 more jobs by the end of 1994.
IBM’s loss, the second-biggest by a U.S. company in a single quarter, arises mainly fr... |
e4a4197d7be2d9e1e4c991c0388acba5 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1993-07-29-me-18146-story.html | Few Report for Jury Duty in Denny Case : Courts: Only 118 of the 1,200 who had been summoned report for the panel. Just 39 remain after first of three days set for selection. | Few Report for Jury Duty in Denny Case : Courts: Only 118 of the 1,200 who had been summoned report for the panel. Just 39 remain after first of three days set for selection.
With a crowd of demonstrators outside and tight security in the courtroom, the trial of two men accused of beating trucker Reginald O. Denny at F... |
8d19a1dd8b3c210a52112722fff233e3 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1993-07-30-ca-18328-story.html | Movie Reviews : Plot Twists Cast Shadows Over ‘Rising Sun’ : Thriller Is Alternately Too Easy and$Too Difficult to Follow | Movie Reviews : Plot Twists Cast Shadows Over ‘Rising Sun’ : Thriller Is Alternately Too Easy and$Too Difficult to Follow
“Rising Sun” has gotten everything backward. Mystifying when it should be clear and clear when it should be mystifying, it is the murkiest, most unsatisfying of thrillers. And the biggest mystery of... |
bcdd877a1d16357af7ab870d12e5c524 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1993-07-31-sp-18789-story.html | PRO FOOTBALL / DAILY REPORT : AROUND THE NFL : Giants’ Moore Gets Month Suspension | PRO FOOTBALL / DAILY REPORT : AROUND THE NFL : Giants’ Moore Gets Month Suspension
Eric Moore, facing up to a year in federal prison on steroid possession charges, was suspended by the NFL on Friday for the first four 1993 regular-season games for violating league policy on anabolic steroids and related substances.
The... |
a9ac939a708da1e711485e1103789418 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1993-08-04-fi-20271-story.html | Polygram to Buy Motown in Deal Worth $325 Million : Music: Purchase is expected to make a global entertainment firm of revived Motown, which sold in 1988 for $61 million. | Polygram to Buy Motown in Deal Worth $325 Million : Music: Purchase is expected to make a global entertainment firm of revived Motown, which sold in 1988 for $61 million.
Polygram confirmed Tuesday that it is buying Motown Record Corp. in a $325-million deal that is expected to transform the black music icon into a glo... |
c1676d6363bd6b9771fddc8bb701aabe | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1993-08-05-ca-20407-story.html | POP MUSIC REVIEW : Things Roll Along Smoothly for Catherine Wheel at Roxy | POP MUSIC REVIEW : Things Roll Along Smoothly for Catherine Wheel at Roxy
Monday’s bill at the Roxy featured Catherine Wheel and Slowdive, two bands from England’s “shoegazing” scene--a genre typified by multi-guitar white noise, dreamy melodies and wafting, float-away vocals. The style can often prove boring live, bec... |
abff27da5686ce78443d1377fd13b76e | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1993-08-06-vw-20881-story.html | BOOK REVIEW : Life of Chevalier Tells Tale of French Theater : THE MAN WHO STOOD FOR FRANCE The Good Frenchman: The True Story of the Life and Times of Maurice Chevalier <i> By Edward Behr</i> ; Villard $27.50, 428 pages | BOOK REVIEW : Life of Chevalier Tells Tale of French Theater : THE MAN WHO STOOD FOR FRANCE The Good Frenchman: The True Story of the Life and Times of Maurice Chevalier <i> By Edward Behr</i> ; Villard $27.50, 428 pages
As the title implicitly suggests, Maurice Chevalier’s biographer regards his debonair subject not o... |
49f0da88ac0b47d5c0084676e91c96a8 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1993-08-08-tm-21814-story.html | Showdown at Rocky Flats : When Federal Agents Take On a Government Nuclear-Bomb Plant, Lines of Law and Politics Blur, and Moral Responsibility Is Tested | Showdown at Rocky Flats : When Federal Agents Take On a Government Nuclear-Bomb Plant, Lines of Law and Politics Blur, and Moral Responsibility Is Tested
WHEN FBI AGENT JON LIPSKY PROPOSED IN JUNE, 1988, THAT they “do Rocky Flats,” Assistant U.S. Atty. Ken Fimberg gave him the type of look you’d direct at someone who’d... |
f716e28c5576ff9cd2a010e37f940858 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1993-08-11-ca-22553-story.html | Brandon Lee’s Mother Claims Negligence Caused His Death : Movies: Linda Lee Cadwell sues 14 entities regarding the actor’s ‘agonizing pain, suffering and untimely death’ last March on the North Carolina set of ‘The Crow.’ | Brandon Lee’s Mother Claims Negligence Caused His Death : Movies: Linda Lee Cadwell sues 14 entities regarding the actor’s ‘agonizing pain, suffering and untimely death’ last March on the North Carolina set of ‘The Crow.’
The mother of actor Brandon Lee has filed suit against the Edward R. Pressman Film Corp. and 13 ot... |
c075004b46c180a6f48a4216f0bcc9c3 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1993-08-12-ca-23042-story.html | South Africa’s Johnny Clegg: A Witness to History : Pop music: The singer loses a band member to violence even as his new album celebrates a brave new world. He starts a Southland tour Friday. | South Africa’s Johnny Clegg: A Witness to History : Pop music: The singer loses a band member to violence even as his new album celebrates a brave new world. He starts a Southland tour Friday.
As the ‘90s opened, Johnny Clegg watched in awe at the radical changes in the world around him--the kind of changes politically... |
91a68bb9e52d8c68b4f5d4e35ab2c4b0 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1993-08-13-me-23313-story.html | Singer Loses Suit Over Paula Abdul Album : Music: Plaintiff said she was uncredited co-lead vocalist on parts of 1988 hit. But jury sides with Virgin Records. | Singer Loses Suit Over Paula Abdul Album : Music: Plaintiff said she was uncredited co-lead vocalist on parts of 1988 hit. But jury sides with Virgin Records.
Pop star Paula Abdul is the only person singing lead vocals on her 10-million-selling debut album “Forever Your Girl,” a Los Angeles jury concluded Thursday.
The... |
27eefc544f7e79cbf084e870630efd0a | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1993-08-13-me-23363-story.html | Valley Obituaries | Valley Obituaries
Brown, Willie M., 63, of Tarzana, baker. Crawford Mortuary, Northridge.
Chavez, Martha Margarita, 50, of Van Nuys, paralegal. Utter-McKinley Mortuary, Mission Hills.
Hughes, Arthur, 69, of Lancaster, superintendent for railroad industry. Halley-Olsen Funeral Chapel, Lancaster.
Kingrea, Dana G., 55, of... |
140ce9f610d652bbfb8161b39778e7f3 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1993-08-13-sp-23521-story.html | Bakersfield Dodgers Would Rather Not Have Their Place in the Sun | Bakersfield Dodgers Would Rather Not Have Their Place in the Sun
There is, indeed, a sliver of truth to that derisive adage about there being little else to do in Bakersfield but watch the sun go down.
In fact, when qualified, the statement can be made entirely accurate.
Let’s put it this way: Out at Sam Lynn Ballpark,... |
d2f73e9520ec2597af209361a361e04d | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1993-08-20-ca-25509-story.html | MOVIE REVIEW : ‘Wilder Napalm’ Misfires in More Ways Than One | MOVIE REVIEW : ‘Wilder Napalm’ Misfires in More Ways Than One
Just about everybody and everything connected to “Wilder Napalm” (selected theaters) is terrible, starting with that title. Don’t expect a Vietnam movie. In fact, don’t expect a movie.
Wilder (Arliss Howard) and Wallace (Dennis Quaid) are estranged brothers ... |
3bd65826e9545ef9c2fcb4b9875044b1 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1993-08-27-mn-28390-story.html | Hasbro to Buy 15% Stake in O.C.'s Virgin Subsidiary | Hasbro to Buy 15% Stake in O.C.'s Virgin Subsidiary
In a sign that toy makers recognize the growing power of video games, the world’s largest toy company Thursday announced plans to spend $25 million for a part of a major video game publisher based in Orange County.
Hasbro Inc., the maker of GI Joe and Barney dolls and... |
520808e3a79a70d356b460558d481035 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1993-08-27-mn-28516-story.html | Police Say Seized Tapes Do Not Incriminate Jackson : Investigation: Officials continue to interview children in connection with molestation allegations. | Police Say Seized Tapes Do Not Incriminate Jackson : Investigation: Officials continue to interview children in connection with molestation allegations.
Videotapes seized from homes belonging to Michael Jackson do not incriminate the entertainer, and the lack of physical evidence of alleged sexual molestation has left ... |
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