While watching a recent interview with Emmylou Harris, I was horrified when a member of the audience asked a rather personal question about Gram Parsons. (“Why did Gram Parsons kill himself at such a young age?”) Ms. Harris handled the question gracefully and moved on to other, more pertinent topics…
Sitting in Ross Perot’s favorite booth at a fancy Dallas restaurant, Leigh Valentine eats half her low-fat redfish and then explains about her husband’s “disguise kit.” The kit contained several fake mustaches and a $1200 custom-made wig. Robert Tilton, the Texas televangelist, carried it everywhere, and during their first year…
The face that replaced his on the page looks so young, so nonthreatening. Not like Jack Nease’s face. His face is wrinkled and worn, withered perhaps by having heard too many politicians lie, seen too much corporate greed. Nease once gazed at readers from the front page of the Sun-Sentinel…
In light of Broward County commissioner Lori Parrish’s deep desire to be sheriff, her views on the American system of justice take on greater significance. Thus the audience showed interest at the October 23 public hearing on the Swerdlow land deal, when transcripts were made available of the commission’s closed-door…
For a man who just pulled off an unlikely victory over a more powerful and entrenched opponent, Shane Anderson doesn’t look the part of the conquering hero. A sheen of sweat is breaking out on his forehead, his face is unnaturally pale beneath its sprinkling of freckles, there’s a slight…
Recently on your America Online site you posted your old column about Rock’n Rollen Stewart, the guy who used to hold up those “John 3:16” signs at sports events. You may be interested to know that Stewart is now serving a life sentence in jail. –Name withheld, via AOL Yipes…
