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DIED. MARVIN MITCHELSON, 76, Hollywood divorce lawyer whose advocacy of the right to alimony sans marriage ("palimony") earned him a client list that read like a seating chart for the People's Choice Awards; in Beverly Hills, Calif. He gained fame in 1976 when he won a landmark lawsuit against actor Lee Marvin, whose lover, Michele Triola Marvin, had abandoned her nightclub singing career to be his companion. Mitchelson also represented such celebrities as Joan Collins and Sonny Bono but later served more than two years in prison for tax fraud...
...Floridian group Further Seems Forever was originally fronted by emo poster boy Chris Carrabba. He went on to start his own band, Dashboard Confessional, and catapult to fame and fortune. But Carrabba’s old band continued to make its Christian-tinged power pop with new singer Jason Gleason. With three albums under its belt, Further Seems Forever seems to have proved its staying power. Opening up the stage are The Kicks, Brandston and Moments in Grace. 18+. Tickets $13. 6 p.m. Axis, 13 Lansdowne Street, Boston...
RICHARD SCRUGGS IS CORPORATE America's worst legal nightmare. In the 1980s and early '90s, he made millions litigating asbestos claims and went on to national fame for beating Big Tobacco, representing the whistle-blower Jeffrey Wigand, subject of the movie The Insider. Scruggs' tobacco suits netted his practice an estimated $1 billion, money that bought him toys, from a $100,000 Bentley to a Falcon jet--and turned him into the dart-board face of tort reform. At 58, he works out of a small firm in Oxford, Miss., with his son Zach and two other lawyers. Scruggs...
PEOPLE: Bennifer, the sequel?; hip-hop eyes the Hall of Fame...
...finally getting its props from the rock establishment. Pioneering DJ GRANDMASTER FLASH and his group, the Furious Five, are among this year's nominees for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame--the first rap artists to claim that distinction. "The streets are buzzing," says Flash, who shares the ballot with U2, Randy Newman, the O'Jays and others. "I went into Target this week, into Home Depot. Everywhere I go, it's 'Congratulations!'" Bands are eligible for the honor when their first album is at least 25 years old. Dubbed "Toscanini of the turntables," Flash recorded Super Rappin...