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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Mar 05, 2002
Page
1
New York Olympic figure skating champion Sarah Hughes, 16, got the key to the city and rang the opening bell at the New York Stock Exchange during celebrations for her Salt Lake City gold. She told City Hall crowds that friends and supporters had been kind, as she recalled her February 21 free skate to gold from fourth.
Yoko Ono rents a Piccadilly Circus billboard in London to display a single line from John Lennon's Imagine urging peace. She has run similar ads in New York and Tokyo and bought a Times ad after the World Trade Center attacks.
On March 5, 1982 John Belushi was found dead from a drug overdose. In 1770 the Boston Massacre occurred when British troops fired on colonists, killing five. Winston Churchill delivered the Iron Curtain speech in 1946. Josef Stalin died at 73 in 1953. In 1963 Patsy Cline Cowboy Copas and Hawkshaw Hawkins died in a plane crash near Camden Tennessee.
Today's birthdays honor model Niki Taylor recovering from a car wreck as she turns 27. Actors Dean Stockwell and Jolene Blalock, musicians Alan Clark and John Frusciante, and actor Jake Lloyd also have milestone ages, with Frusciante listed at 32 and Stockwell at 66.
A reader teaser hints at a pictured device shown as possibly a bird or self defense tool but identifies it as a kitchen gadget. The upcoming Wednesday Food section promises the reveal of the device name and other new tools indispensable to cooking enthusiasts.
ABC News debates political balance amid Disney budget pressures as Nightline contemplates changes. Ted Koppel and staff confront a growing rift between news and entertainment arms, with concerns about fading relevance and young audiences. Star power shifts fuel executive tensions and potential programming pivots.
Historian Doris Kearns Goodwin pulls out of judging the 2001 Pulitzer Prizes after admitting copying passages in The Fitzgeralds and the Kennedys. Board chair John Carroll and Goodwin cited media distraction and time concerns. Goodwin also takes leave from PBS and faces a renewed scrutiny from universities.
Amy Fisher is out and Paula Jones replaces her in Tonya Harding's Celebrity Boxing event set for March 13. Barry Williams will face Danny Bonaduce, with two other pairings yet to be announced. The program features real three round bouts and ties to Clinton, Kerrigan, and the Buttafuoco case.
Nashville mourns Harlan Howard, the renowned country songwriter behind I Fall to Pieces and Busted, who died aged 74 after heart trouble. Known as Mr. Songwriter, he penned over 100 Top 10 songs and was a Country Music Hall of Fame inductee and longtime force on Music Row.
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