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POPSFamous prostitute's gravestone deemed too 'slutty'
Maybe provocative or sexy. I wouldn't call it "slutty" though? "But the cemetery officials are not alone in criticising Ungerer’s memorial. Photographer Günther Zint, another friend of Niehoff, told the newspaper, “There was a bit of a debate among her friends whether Tomi needed to emphasise her breasts like that. They were after all a bane of her life.” Niehoff, who gained fame for advocating the rights of sex workers in the 70s and 80s, died at age 63 in February 2009. Originally from Cologne, Niehoff lived through drugs, child prostitution and desperate attempts to get out of the sex trade. She grew up in an orphanage before slipping into prostitution, when she married a brothel owner, who committed suicide ten years later. She worked as a prostitute in Munich and Hamburg and had her own brothel before she began to push for the legalisation of prostitution in Germany in the 1980s. She then became a social worker to help women to get off the street."
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POPSClever epitaph! A life well-lived - if you succeed at making people laugh as they look at your grave?!
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POPSJohn Peel's Teenage Kicks Sheila Ravenscroft, John's widow, said: "We have put the words on the stone that he would've wanted. I wouldn't dare do anything else!" Mrs Ravenscroft explained the reason for the three year delay in erecting the stone: "I suppose that it was my fault really. I couldn't face it to start with. "For the first year we couldn't do anything because the ground has to settle. Then it took a long time to find a traditional type of York stone I knew John would like. I didn't want to have anything modern. A stonemason friend did the work." The Ulster band's lyrics are joined on the stone by the Liver Bird, the emblem of Peel's beloved Liverpool FC. The father-of-four is buried at St Andrew's Church, in the village of Great Finborough, Suffolk, where he lived for 33 years.
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POPSThe magician whose greastest illusion was death Lafayette was somewhat misanthropic, avoiding close relationships with anyone other than his dog Beauty. A pit bull given to him by the escape artist Harry Houdini, Beauty lived in luxury, enjoying her own suite of rooms and eating sumptuous five-course meals. A sign in Lafayette's London home made clear to visitors the importance of Beauty to her master: Tragedy struck the very next day when Beauty died of a stroke. Lafayette was inconsolable. Beauty's grave rests at the foot of the gravestone of her master. So ended the life of one of the world's greatest illusionists. Whether he really foresaw his own death or whether it was just spectacular coincidence can never be known. What is without doubt is that in death The Great Lafayette pulled off one of the most
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POPSPagan Vets Rally for Respect Jill Medicine Heart Combs told the crowd that her Wiccan husband, Gerwin Dee Combs, who served in the Army from 1979 to 1986, lies gravely ill in an irreversible coma in an Ohio hospital. Combs wept as she spoke, saying that her husband would want an emblem of his faith on his gravestone. "We must speak out against religious prejudice," she said. "I know Gary would want me to be here."
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POPSDead Man's Storage Why a dead man's storage locker yielded dozens of tombstones? A macabre collection that police belive represents "a lifetime of stealing."
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POPStough time for music: TOWER RECORDS - OUT OF BUSINESS Tower Records and CBGB - bad news, same weekend...it's like we're taking all the heart and soul out of a heart and soul business (if there really is such a thing) Ibought my first CD at Tower Records-- it was Billy Joel- the double disc greatest hits-- i was probably 9-10-- in '85-'86- don't really remember which one-- but for me, Tower Records had the 'kid in the candy store' effect.
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