Unser Heft 50 ist gerade frisch aus der Druckerei eingetroffen. Darin auch das Interview mit Sohrab Shahid Saless von 1977 "Stilles Leben in der Fremde", wiederabgedruckt im dreibändigen Werk "Die langen Ferien des Sohrab Shahid Saless. Annäherungen an ein Leben und Werk" von Behrang Samsami. Am 28. Juni 2024 wäre Saless achtzig geworden. Ein Gastbeitrag zum Anlass.
„By account [of 19 year old intern Mimi Beardsley], Kennedy asked her to perform oral sex on an aide while he watched. She did, and their contact continued for more than a year; it ended soon after she turned down a request to “take care” of Ted Kennedy.“ *
„One of Elvis Presley’s cousins, Billy Mann, accepted $18,000 to secretly photograph the corpse [of Elvis]; the picture appeared on the cover of the National Enquirer’s biggest-selling issue ever.“ **
„[McTiernan’s] reputation (…) had taken a sharp dive with 2002’s „Rollerball„, even as he was caught on tape using [eavesdropping private eye] Pellicano to investigate the film’s producer, Charles Roven, over supposed — and never substantiated — misuse of production money.“ ***
(Eingestellt von Christoph)