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...their followers set, fire to the place, the site has become a macabre graveyard. Police bulldozed the building and its grisly contents--at least 330, and perhaps as many as 550, charred corpses--into a trench dug by prisoners, burying the physical evidence but not erasing the horror of one of Uganda's worst atrocities. "What most disturbs me is the children who died," says Gervis Muteguya, who lost five relatives in the fire. "Children are innocent. They had no choice in this...
...fashionable East Village junkies; he plans to make 10 more by the end of the year. Lance Weiler and Stefan Avalos, two freelancing filmmakers, spent all of $900 in 1997 to shoot a digital-video movie called The Last Broadcast, which, like The Blair Witch Project, was a mockumentary horror movie involving a murder in the woods (in the future, it seems, "Arboreal Murder Mockumentary" will surpass "Romantic Tearjerker" as the most popular Blockbuster category...
DIED. CHARLES GRAY, 71, actor who played James Bond's diabolical cat-stroking nemesis, Ernst Blofeld, in Diamonds Are Forever and the narrator in The Rocky Horror Picture Show; in London...
Publishing takes another step out of the Gutenberg era this week when a new story by horror impresario Stephen King is released, at the witchy hour of 12:01 a.m. E.T. on March 14, exclusively in electronic form. The 16,000-word tale, Riding the Bullet, issued jointly by Simon & Schuster and Philtrum Press, King's personal publishing imprint, can be ordered online for $2.50 in formats compatible with a variety of e-book and computer devices...
...issue of kids and drugs. OK, so Prozac isn't exactly heroin, but the President has lots of support for his latest campaign: A recent study that showed a steep increase in the number of very young, very energetic children on psychiatric drugs was greeted with nearly unanimous horror. Children's rights advocates and pediatricians were up in arms over the potential physical side effects of the drugs, which remain widely untested for pediatric use. And child psychologists across the country rolled up their sleeves in anticipation of an onslaught of newly Ritalin-free kids...