By then, his work had drawn the attention of Celia Sánchez, Fidel’s partner in the guerrilla war of the late 1950s who took a passionate interest in Cuban history. Celia had become the unofficial gatekeeper for access to Fidel, and her patronage allowed him to present his ideas to the ...
Fatman Scoop died after collapsing on stage at a show in Connecticut, according to officials and his family. He was 53.
So Gerris Drinkwater gave the captain of Adventure his most disarming smile. “Truth be told, I have not kept count of all the cowards who refused us, but at the Merchant’s House I heard it said that you were a bolder sort of man, the sort who might risk anything for sufficient gold...
The man had just got outside the yamen gate when the hen’s droppings fell onto his forehead and dripped down over his nose and moustache onto the pillory, sending all who saw it into fits of laughter.The next to be called was the old Moslem. Magistrate Tang stormed at him for his ...
Part of a pack. Jada called in from the door leading into the garage as she took off her shoes. “Am I late?” The police had accepted Jada’s statement. Lying hadn’t been necessary. The men who broke into the house were strangers and she had shot one, but they had run off, ...
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I did lots of jokes, which is obviously the idea, but I also tried to get a bit in about my nan who died when I was 12. She used to look after me and my brother and was really a big part of the family so I kept getting upset when I tried to say it. But I thought, 'It...
JOHNSON: I think the demise of humankind will happen before we discover the secret of immortality (laughter). I’ve always thought that there was a kind of… that the gods were engaged in it…a sort of wager. A cosmic wager going on about whether mankind will destroy itself before it di...
to his days as a brash young gunfighter for hire. There he’d met many friends who lived and died with a revolver in their hand, but one figure remained as steadfast and obstinate as always, too big to kill and too old to die. He wasn’t a man per se, but he’d been fighting ...
“Jon loved Phil and I know he was angry and he probably wanted somebody to blame in a sense,” said Vicki Lewis, who played Beth on “NewsRadio.” “I didn't cause her to relapse. That's one of the misconceptions. That is not true. Not true. Like, for real,” Dick said. “...