Word: autographed
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...months ago, the mayor of Hialeah Gardens was convicted of soliciting to murder her ex-husband. The first place she went looking for hit men: city hall. Our tolerance for such controversial characters is epitomized by the welcome given O.J. Simpson, who moved here for the golf. Autograph seekers follow him down the fairways as if he were one of the Beatles...
...even more squirrely during his long retirement. In the 1990s, taking his last laps as a handshaker, autograph signer and first-ball thrower, he demanded to be introduced as "baseball's greatest living ballplayer." He insisted on first-class transcontinental airfare even if he was only taking a cab from across town...
...last week, when former centerfold Anna Nicole Smith boom-boomed out of a Houston courtroom during a break in the latest blood feud over her dead husband's $1.6 billion oil fortune, a line of autograph hounds awaited...
...will be compiled on an album later this year, with proceeds going to children's charities. Meanwhile, Germans are grooving to a single featuring the looped voice of Chancellor GERHARD SCHROEDER saying "Get me a beer or I'll go on strike." Schroeder said the words to amuse an autograph seeker, and a German TV personality mixed them into a hit. The Chancellor is said to be "amused...
...turned down an ad campaign. "Speedo offered to sponsor me, but I didn't like the contract," he said, eating baked Alaska as the waitress came over with a stack of menus to be signed. "Michael Johnson was here two days ago, and we didn't ask for his autograph," she said. After signing, the team stopped for some photo ops with diners, then headed back to the Olympic Village. Moussambani promised to call me next year, when he hopes to be invited to a swim meet in Washington. We both better enjoy it while it lasts. After that...