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PEOPLE & ARTS Thursday 9 November 2017
Commentary on killings draws strength through repetition

By DAVID BAUDER talk about the article. But
AP Media Writer the fifth version, written
NEW YORK (AP) — A satiri- after the massacre at a
cal website is responsible country music concert in
for one of the starkest com- Las Vegas last month, was
mentaries on mass killings, the most-read piece on the
and it draws its power site in October, a company
through repetition. spokesman said.
After the Texas church "It certainly gets people's
shooting this week, The On- attention," said Avery Gar-
ion posted for the sixth time diner, co-president of the
a variation of the same ar- Brady Campaign & Center
ticle headlined: "'No Way to Prevent Gun Violence.
to Prevent This,' Says Only The first time the piece was
Nation Where This Regularly posted was in May 2014,
Happens." after six people were killed
The article changes date- on the campus of the Uni-
lines — this time it was versity of California in Santa
Sutherland Springs, Texas — Barbara.
and a few details to reflect The Onion piece shares
which tragedy was most Derrick Bernoden burns sage at a makshift memorial for the First Baptist Church victims Tuesday, with television comics John
Nov. 7, 2017, in Sutherland Springs, Texas.
recent. But its centerpiece Associated Press Oliver and Trevor Noah an
quote, each time from a ability to point out absurdi-
different fictitious person, pressed by tens of millions "It's a shame, but what can snapping and killing a lot of ties at the heart of an issue,
remains the same. of individuals who reside in we do? There really wasn't people if that's what they said Kyle Pope, editor and
This week's post: "This was a nation where over half anything that was going really wanted." publisher of the Columbia
a terrible tragedy, but of the world's deadliest to keep this individual from The Onion's editors wouldn't Journalism Review. q
sometimes these things mass shootings have oc-
just happen and there's curred in the past 50 years
nothing anyone can do and whose citizens are 20
to stop them," said Kan- times more likely to die of
sas resident Britt Mulvanos, gun violence than those of
echoing sentiments ex- other developed nations.

Andrew Lloyd Webber

is ready to write his

own story

By MARK KENNEDY
AP Entertainment Writer
NEW YORK (AP) — The com-
poser behind such iconic
stage stories as "The Phan-
tom of the Opera," ''Evita"
and "Cats" is ready to tell
his own.
Andrew Lloyd Webber
plans to release his auto-
biography "Unmasked" on
March 6, which loosely co-
incides with his 70th birth-
day on March 22. While
there have been plenty of
books about the compos-
er, this will be the first he's This book cover image
written. released by HarperCollins
shows "Unmasked," a memoir
The book, from HarperCol- by Andrew Lloyd Webber.
lins, promises to take "stock
of his achievements, the Paige, Sarah Brightman,
twists of fate and circum- David Frost, Judi Dench,
stance which brought him Richard Branson, A.R. Rah-
both success and disap- man, Mandy Patinkin, Rich-
pointment, and the pas- ard Rodgers, Norman Jewi-
sions that inspire and sus- son, Milos Forman, Placido
tain him." Domingo, Barbra Streisand,
The book examines his Michael Crawford, Gillian
shows and his music and Lynne and Betty Buckley,
has stories about Elaine among others.q