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...Paris this summer, I didn't know who he was. I did know that I had just arrived in the city and didn't know too many people, and that art looted by the Nazis during World War II was an interesting enough topic to get me on the metro...
What started the fire? The Grammy Award-winning singer had written a letter to the Miami Herald in support of a volunteer who was kicked off a Metro-Dade arts board. Peggi McKinley was fired for saying officials should end their ban on Cuba-based artists performing at county-sponsored events. As a result of the law, the French-based organizers of a major Latin American and Caribbean music conference had threatened to abandon Miami as a future venue, a move that would cost the city millions of dollars. "As an American," Estefan wrote, "I am frightened...
Currently, 62 percent of the underground metro has been completed, and 72 percent of sporting facilities are already in place, according to Marton Simitsek, head of operations for the bid committee...
Back then it took Hollywood a while to realize what kind of acting Stewart was capable of. MGM director W.S. Van Dyke II pegged him as "unusually usual." To the brass at Metro, who signed Stewart in 1935, the label meant he was a sensitive fellow with zero sex appeal--not the stuff of celebrity. So he was made to sob through After the Thin Man (pssst: he dunnit), shuffle through Born to Dance (he wasn't), swivel on skates in Ice Follies...
Kohler's Harvard career was capped in style as the New York/New Jersey Metro Stars made him their second-round draft pick...