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...famous for his incredible dearth of singing talent) and the Internet has, among others, its Gary Brolsma. Gary, a hefty, likable 19 year-old New Jersey suburbanite, recently found himself catapulted into the public consciousness after a video he made of himself lipsynching and dancing along with a Romanian pop tune (he calls the video the “Numa Numa Dance”) met with unexpected popularity on the net. He enjoyed the initial rush, but as he’s become more and more of an icon he’s grown self-conscious and now is hiding...
...DIED. SANDRA DEE, 62, once America's perkiest, most popular female teen idol, who caused squeals in teenage bedrooms nationwide when she married pop singer Bobby Darin; of complications from kidney disease; in Thousand Oaks, California. She played the innocent tomboy surfer in the 1959 film Gidget, a signature role that led to a string of similar parts, but showed a more serious side in films like Imitation of Life and A Summer Place. She gradually disappeared from Hollywood, battling anorexia and drinking problems after her turbulent marriage to Darin ended...
Polls have shown that blacks are more sympathetic to Jackson. But jury consultants scouring the panel say there are members who could be sympathetic to the pop star. A 21-year-old man in a wheel-chair who said he had visited Jackson's Neverland Ranch as a child expressed disgust at discrimination lawsuits brought against local restaurants by a disabled man. Jury consultant Sarah Murray thought that could presage a lack of sympathy for Jackson's accuser. That juror is "somebody who doesn't like it when people play the victim," says Murray. Another potential obstacle for the prosecution...
DIED. SANDRA DEE, 62, perky Hollywood teen idol who caused squeals in teenage bedrooms everywhere when she married pop singer Bobby Darin; of complications from kidney disease; in Thousand Oaks, Calif. She played the innocent tomboy surfer in the 1959 film Gidget, a signature role that led to a string of similar parts. But she showed a more serious side in films such as Imitation of Life and A Summer Place. She gradually disappeared from Hollywood, battling anorexia and drinking problems, after her turbulent marriage to Darin ended...
DIED. JOHN RAITT, 88, Broadway baritone; of complications from pneumonia; in Los Angeles. To a later generation, he was known as the father of pop-blues singer Bonnie Raitt, but he became an instant star back in 1945 as Billy Bigelow, the antihero of Rodgers and Hammerstein's Carousel (their showstopping 7-min.-long Soliloquy was written for him). Raitt also starred in Broadway's Carnival in Flanders and the 1954 hit The Pajama Game...