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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 23, 2000
Page
4
Former Animals frontman Eric Burdon helps rally against a proposed garbage dump near Joshua Tree National Park. He and other singers performed at the Rockin for Joshua Tree benefit in Palm Springs to urge preservation.
Politicians celebrities and activists gathered on the National Mall in Washington to mark the 30th Earth Day with speeches and entertainment. Leonardo DiCaprio hosted the event and urged action to combat global warming.
Director Mike Hodges, 68, says he waited 29 years for another wide release after Get Carter. His latest film Croupier opened this weekend. He notes several of his acclaimed works were never widely distributed.
Alicia Silverstone says she is no longer clueless about her diet and has forsaken all animal products. She credits two years of vegetarian eating with better sleep hair and skin and no longer counting pounds.
Donna Hanover wife of New York mayor Rudolph Giuliani joins the off Broadway hit The Vagina Monologues beginning May 30 taking a lead role for two weeks. The cast includes two other women sharing the show’s dozen monologues. Joannie Danielides confirms casting. Eve Ensler wrote the play and is a political supporter of Hillary Rodham Clinton.
New York AP reports Alexander Cohen a longtime Broadway producer who helped bring the Tony Awards to national TV died Saturday at age 79. A colorful showman, he produced Angel Street opening 1941 and running 1295 performances. His later works included Waiting in the Wings at the Eugene O Neill Theatre.
A preliminary report says flashes on a tape from the 1993 Branch Davidian siege were sunlight reflections off debris, not government gunfire. Vector Data Systems conducted the March 19 simulation at a Texas Army base for the wrongful death suit.
A St. Louis Post-Dispatch report indicates sunlight reflecting off debris may explain fire area flashes seen on a 1993 infrared tape of the Waco siege. The finding challenges gunfire as the source, while Branch Davidian survivors’ lawyer Michael Caddell pledges to show government negligence over fire equipment and counters the reflexive claim of self‑inflicted arson. Vector’s test was hired by Special Counsel John Danforth after FBI actions on the final day.
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