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PERFORMER: BILLY JOEL...
...HOME JOEL RIFKIN SHARED WITH his sister and widowed mother on Long Island is a horticulturist's delight. Lush beds of lavender, lamb's ears, lilies, begonias, irises and poppies surround the house. The box hedges are perfectly manicured. A magnolia tree thrives. The plants are a living testament to Joel Rifkin's gifts as a gardener. "Joel could tell you exactly what's growing," says Frank Barton, who lives across the street from the landscaper. "He knew how long it'll grow and when it'll die." But Joel Rifkin cultivated life and death in other, more odious ways...
After New Yorker Joel Rifkin (yearbook photo, left) confessed last week to murdering 17 prostitutes, a high school classmate said he was "quiet, shy, not the kind of guy who would do something like this." It's the quiet ones you've got to watch...
...Billy Joel Is a Bit Like Mantovani...
...Jurassic Park) is leaving the Boston Pops at the end of this year, and the orchestra is looking for a new leader -- preferably someone with star power, a marquee name. Among the people still in the running for the Pops job, according to rumor: Top 40- esque entertainers Billy Joel, Paul McCartney, Quincy Jones and Marvin Hamlisch. There are also more conventional candidates up for the post, including conductors Erich Kunzel of the Cincinnati Pops and John Mauceri of the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra...