Is Charlie making Patsies of lesbians?
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The 1993 popularity of country singer Patsy Cline who died on Mar 05, 1963 provides her widower Charlie Dick, 60, with more royalties than she received when she was alive. Two films in the 1980s, 'The Coal Miner's Daughter' and 'Sweet Dreams' showed her as a singer who had to fight exploitation by agents and misogyny in Nashville. They also portrayed problems with her husband, who did not want her to sing, but Charlie denies drunken fights. Patsy Cline is very popular with lesbians. Canadian country singer k d lang renamed her band the re-Clines and uses Patsy's producer Owen Bradley.
Publication Name: The Independent
Subject: Retail industry
ISSN: 0951-9467
Year: 1993
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Life after ice in your underpants
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Robert Swan, who explored the North and South Poles, gives talks to motivate executives. He has to repay the 600,000 pounds sterling debt the adventure left him. Life after the experience of exploration can be depressing. Swan, 35, applies himself to his talks. Time magazine placed him in the top 10 motivational speakers in the world. Swan has devoted himself to another challenge to bring together businessmen and environmental concerns. He became UN Ambassador for the Environment in 1990 and attended the Earth Summit in Rio, Brazil.
Publication Name: The Independent
Subject: Retail industry
ISSN: 0951-9467
Year: 1993
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Beer money for the butterflies
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Ex-banker Edward Whitley, 31, works two days a week for the Whitley Trust which his grandfather established in 1961. Some of the profits from the family firm, the north-west brewers Greenall Whitley, are used for animal protection. Edward Whiteley, author of 'Gerald Durrell's Army,' supports small projects where one or two individuals achieve a lot. He helps conservationists with their finances and established the annual Whitley Prize of 15,000 pounds sterling for a UK project.
Publication Name: The Independent
Subject: Retail industry
ISSN: 0951-9467
Year: 1993
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