MELTDOWN
At her Feb. 29 concert at Manhattan's Roseland
Ballroom, angsty alt-rocker Fiona Apple, 22, had a lengthy
tantrum about the venue's sound system. ''I swear to God, you
f---ing reviewers, if you f---ing f--- me tonight I'll f---ing
kill you,'' she ranted before walking out mid-show. ''I just
couldn't hear myself at all on that stage and I lost it. I can't
apologize enough,'' she later wrote on a fan website,
neverisapromise.com.
DEATHS
Actor John Colicos, 71, of heart failure, March 6 in
Toronto. Best known as evil Count Baltar in the TV show
Battlestar Galactica, the stage vet was the all-time youngest
King Lear, at age 22, at London's Old Vic.... Composer George
Duning, 92, of a ruptured aorta, Feb. 27, in San Diego. The
five-time Oscar nominee was best known for scoring 1953's From
Here to Eternity and 1955's Picnic.
Additional reporting by Ann Limpert and Laura Morgan
