TV's 'Brat Camper' faces charges
BOSTON, Aug. 5 (UPI) -- Jada Chabot, 15, one of nine misfits on the new ABC-TV "Brat Camp'' show, is facing charges after slamming a speedboat into a Massachusetts family.
``I thought we were all gonna die,'' Agenor Moraes of Foxboro, Mass., told the Boston Herald, recalling the moment when he saw Chabot's boat speeding toward his family, who were in an inflatable boat.
Two of the Morales children were injured in the crash, which occurred while Chabot was pulling her boyfriend on a knee board.
Chabot's parents said they decided to put her on "Brat Camp," which seeks to reform troubled teens by tossing them into a rigorous wilderness program, because she had become impossible to discipline.
The show features the struggles of Chabot and the other "brats" as they battle with the Oregon outdoors and with their own dysfunctional personalities.
Fans recall Marilyn 43 years after death
LOS ANGELES, Aug. 5 (UPI) -- Fans from around the world gathered near her Los Angeles crypt Friday to celebrate the life of Marilyn Monroe and mourn her death 43 years ago.
On Aug. 5, 1962, the 36-year-old movie star was found dead in the bedroom of her Brentwood home. Her death was ruled a suicide by acute barbiturate poisoning.
One of Friday's mourners was expected to be John Miner, 86, the former Los Angeles prosecutor who investigated her death and is sure she didn't kill herself, the Los Angeles Times said.
Miner says he's heard secret tapes that Monroe made in the days shortly before she died that prove the legendary screen actress was anything but suicidal.
Miner says tapes show Monroe obsessing about the Oscars, describing various sexual encounters, yearning to be taken seriously as an actress, contemplating why her marriages to Joe DiMaggio and Arthur Miller failed and favorably describing her body as middle age neared.
Dolan leaves show
CHICAGO, Aug. 5 (UPI) -- A dispute between her parents and Chicago's Steppenwolf Theater has led Darragh Quinn Dolan, a first grader, to leave the theater's sexually charged show.
Darragh was one of two girls sharing a controversial role in the production "The Pain and the Itch," the Chicago Tribune reported.
Managing director David Hawkanson said Darragh's parents had demanded changes to the production that the theater deemed unacceptable. He said the theater has begun casting a replacement for Darragh, the newspaper said.
Darragh's mother, Michelle Dolan, said she felt the theater had not supported her daughter amid criticism that the role was inappropriate for so young a performer.
The other child actor will continue to appear in performances of the play, Hawkanson said.
Dylan's 'Like a Rolling Stone' tops poll
LONDON, Aug. 5 (UPI) -- A British poll of rock and film stars picked Bob Dylan's 1965 single "Like a Rolling Stone" as the mass media moment that changed the world.
The poll done for Uncut magazine asked the participants to find the music, movies, TV shows and books that changed the world, the BBC reported Friday.
Elvis Presley's "Heartbreak Hotel" won second place.
The Beatles "She Loves You" came third, and The Rolling Stones' (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction," fourth.
Stanley Kubrick's "A Clockwork Orange" was the highest-placed movie at No. 5, followed by "The Godfather" and "The Godfather II."
"The Prisoner" was the top-ranking TV series at No. 10 while Jack Kerouac's novel "On the Road" was the highest-ranked book, in 19th place.
Poll participants included Paul McCartney, Noel Gallagher, Robert Downey Jr., Keith Richards and Lou Reed.
Pioneering rock journalist dies
LOS ANGELES, Aug. 5 (UPI) -- Al Aronowitz, a pioneering rock journalist and promoter who made musical history by introducing Bob Dylan to the Beatles, has died at the age of 77.
Aronowitz, who brought renewed attention to his writing through his Web site, the Blacklisted Journalist, died Monday of cancer at Trinitas Hospital in Elizabeth, N.J., said his son, Joel Roi Aronowitz.
Aronowitz considered the Beatles-Dylan introduction on Aug. 28, 1964, the "crowning achievement" of a career that had crested by the early 1970s, the Los Angeles Times said.
He wrote, "The Beatles' magic was in their sound. Bob's magic was in his words. After they met, the Beatles' words got grittier, and Bob invented folk-rock."
Called gruff and irascible by many, Aronowitz first received attention for writing about what were then considered literary outlaws.
Steven Van Zandt, the musician and actor, called Aronowitz "one of the great unsung heroes of rock and roll" who was "a tragically underappreciated American treasure."
