F6 The Buffalo News/Sunday, March 23, 2014 F7 Spotlight: Where are they now? Making the long trip from the public eye to a more private life

Billie Lawless the 1975 finals with in June and is still as lovely as ever, of his sister to win his freedom – Flyers. been doing since then? Through her turned into something of a cultural n a late-November day in “In hockey, it came natural in a agency, she declined an interview touchstone. 1984, Buffalo artist Billie sense,” said Lorentz. “There is a lot of request. So we had to turn to “I want to appeal for an end to Lawless got word that hard work connected to condition- the public record to answer that the suffering of all people in the O his controversial public ing. Writing was a whole different question. Middle East,” Say said, at one point sculpture, “Green Lightning,” was experience. One of the most difficult White hasn’t graced the pages during her brother’s captivity, being demolished on the orders of areas was trying to get everything of SI since 2011, but she still gets “including these innocent hostages.” Buffalo Mayor James D. Griffin. arranged in the right spot. It was regular work with companies such Anderson didn’t move back to So he did what any self- a real experience. It was really as H&M, for whom she modeled Batavia after his release and Say respecting artist would do: He drove eye-opening.” lingerie, and with makeup giant had moved away while he was in down to where the sculpture had He doesn’t expect to get rich on Maybelline. And in late January she captivity. been unveiled just days before on a book proceeds. went on BET’s “106 & Park” to talk Anderson was living in patch of grass between Elm and Oak “The audience for Atlantic about her new lingerie line. Kentucky, as of his last visit to the streets and climbed atop the 30-foot salmon fishing isn’t that large as “I want to inspire all women no Buffalo region in 2011, and teaching structure in an attempt to prevent compared to trout fishing,” said matter what shape and size they journalism at a college there. workers from cutting it down. Lorentz. “I don’t expect to make a lot are,” White said, though she didn’t Say relocated out of state with “When I was standing on top of of money or anything like that.” offer details on when and where the her husband, David Say. He died in the sculpture and the guy was start- Lorentz, who is about to turn 67, intimate apparel would be available. 2012 in their hometown of Cookev- ing to cut it and I thought I could die, misses very few TV games. What White is active on Twitter, where ille, Tenn. I was a little nervous,” he said during does he think of the team? she has 25,100 followers, and she Anderson, when contacted by a recent phone interview from his “Not very much,” said Lorentz. frequently posts glamorous pictures The Buffalo News for this story, said studio in Cleveland, where he has “What was surprising to me I wasn’t to Instagram. that he didn’t want to talk about his lived since the early 1990s. “The guy sure what Darcy (former general Her self-description from her life and what he is doing now. was cutting the leg of the sculpture. manager Darcy Regier) was trying Twitter profile is cryptic, ellipses - Charity Vogel That would make anybody nervous.” to do. I thought it was really, really and all: “I am … of the wind. Whose Lawless, whose work has been unfair what they did to the fans here sound is heard yet none can tell from embraced in and Cleveland, in the approach they took to try and whence it comes or where it goes.” has no reason to be nervous any redevelop the team. And they put She’s a regular on the red carpet more. And aside from that brief and them in a really bad position – the and socializes with fellow supermod- terrifying moment he spent on top of fans and the organization.” els, actresses and other boldfaced Semyon Bychkov his teetering sculpture, he said there Lorentz was shocked by the quick names. She’s also gained attention t’s easy to figure out where was never a time when he bore any departure of Pat LaFontaine as for her dating life, with reported Semyon Bychkov is now. Just hit ill-will toward his native city. president of hockey operations. relationships with ex-Bill Terrell Google. At the moment he is at He moved to Cleveland around “I think it is a public relations Owens and bad-boy actor Sean Penn. ICovent Garden, the world-famous 1990, after the “Green Lightning” disaster,” said Lorentz. “I’m a big White was charged in 2010 opera house in London where Prince fiasco and the first of the subsequent supporter of Pat. He brought a lot of with assault and harassment after Charles, once upon a time, used to court battles played out. He is now class and credibility to the organiza- allegedly slapping a woman in a drag a reluctant Princess Diana. working out of his large studio in tion. I don’t know what happened fight over a cab in New York City, but He is conducting Richard the city, where “Green Lighting” but I think it is really bad for the the counts were dismissed in 2011 Strauss’ “Die Frau Ohne Schatten,” currently sits in storage. organization.” and White was ordered to perform which means “The Woman Without His 1995 sculpture, an enormous He is a fan of Coach Ted Nolan. community service, New York a Shadow.” The Independent in Brit- mechanical contraption called “The “Even when he was coaching magazine reported. She also said ain gave it thumbs up: “With an ide- Politician a Toy” that rotates during the , I remember she was taking meditation classes al cast, and with the great Semyon the day and plays video at night, is the (2007) playoff series and Buffalo given to her as a birthday gift by rap Bychkov in the pit, we get a breath- a popular attraction on the campus was damn lucky to win that series. mogul Russell Simmons. taking performance.” of Cleveland State University. It’s I thought the Islanders outworked There’s no indication she ever You could almost call Bychkov widely read as a critique of elected them,” said Lorentz. “Buffalo just won bought or moved into the house the maestro without a shadow. He officials and it is, quite possibly, a by its talent. I’ve always impressed in Orchard Park, nor do we know never stands still. kind of cubist rendering of the late by what he’s been able to get from his whether she followed through on Born in 1952 in St. Petersburg – Griffin. (“People see what they want players. He is one of the best I’ve seen her plan to take classes toward then Leningrad – he led the Buffalo to see in it,” Lawless said.) from getting the most out of them.” earning a GED. Philharmonic Orchestra from 1985 “Green Lightning” was on view “He spends more time on trying As for her Angel Wings char- until 1989. He left Buffalo to lead for 10 years in Chicago, where hardly to motivate players. … Today’s game ity, White held a fundraising golf the Orchestre de Paris, where he re- anyone batted an eye at the neon gets too structured and it takes away tournament in 2009 in Orchard Park, mained until 1998. From 1997 to 2010 depictions of dancing male genitalia from the players’ imagination and and she has held fundraising parties he was the music director of the West in top hats that prompted Griffin creativity. Ted wants the work ethic on Long Island every May since 2010. German Radio Symphony Orchestra to label it “obscene” and order its and he knows if you get the work The events are considered a highlight of Cologne, a gigantic German or- removal. ethic the talent is going to come to of the Hamptons social calendar. chestra he brought to Kleinhans Mu- Lawless’ work was included in a the forefront and that overcomes a White said in the BET interview sic Hall in 2002. (Big orchestras suit late-1980s exhibition on censorship lot of things.” that she is filming a TV show – Bychkov. BPO Music Director JoAnn at the Cleveland gallery Spaces. After Lorentz still watches games like perhaps the reality show for the Falletta, who studied with him at the the exhibition, he said, he decided to an analyst and wishes he could Style Network widely reported last Mannes School of Music, once called make a life for himself there. explain some things going on. year – and said she wanted to do him “a larger-than-life personality.”) Right now, Lawless said, he’s work- And what is his view of Sabres more acting in 2014. Now, Bychkov freelances, con- ing on a large version of Noah’s Ark analyst Rob Ray? “This year, I’m gonna be really ducting at high-profile places that includes a depiction of the biblical “I think Rob has a lot of potential, insane. But I’m ready. I’ve been including Covent Garden, the Met- story of Cain and Abel. He cites the but I don’t think he has learned how waiting my whole life to kind of step ropolitan Opera, and La Scala in artists Alexander Calder and Christo to do the job yet,” said Lorentz. “I out and get people to know who I Milan. About once a year, he tours as influences, saying that most of his think he has good insight, but I don’t am and just see who Jessica is in America leading various orchestras. work is designed to be moved from think he has learned how to deliver anything I have to offer in entertain- On the phone from London, he said place to place rather than plopped it yet. I think he needs to do more ment,” she said. he loves his freedom. down in one location forever. preparation with coaches.” - Stephen T. Watson “One of the privileges I have is “I always felt that I wanted to do Lorentz also agrees with my that I only do projects that are real- a lot of different work, not just keep criticism of Ray. ly, really important to me, that I can churning out Kenneth Snelson-type “Somebody should give him a become obsessed about,” he said. “It sculptures one after the next. So I’ve grammar book,” said Lorentz. “I is the only way that I can function.” always been pretty diverse,” Lawless don’t mean to be rough on him. All “I am conducting ‘Die Frau Ohne said. “The idea that my pieces move I’m saying is he needs to clean up Terry Anderson Schatten’ for the first time in my life,” around and are temporal I thought the grammar.” he adds. “For many years, I have had was always part of the piece.” He doesn’t regret leaving the booth Here they are now: From upper left, clockwise: Billie Lawless, inset, now a Cleveland resident, created one of the region’s most famous pieces of public art with his “Green Lightning”; pro-life activist Karen Swallow Prior now teaches at Liberty and Peggy Say great identification with the music of So does that mean “Green Light- and isn’t envious of Jeanneret, who University; Semyon Bychkov, the fomer head of the BPO, is a freelance conductor in Europe; daredevil Dave Munday, who went over the falls in barrels twice, now lives in Nova Scotia; supermodel Jessica White went from the pages of Sports n his absence, Terry Anderson Strauss.” He is looking forward to his ing” might some day make a return also has tired of traveling but has been Illustrated to a long career as a fashion model and entrepreneur; former hostage Terry Anderson lives in Kentucky and is a college professor; and former Sabre retired from broadcasting and now writes about fishing. became a presence. next overwhelming project, which is trip to ? able to work a reduced schedule. Most of us never knew him conducting Moussorgsky’s “Khovan- “If they want to bring it back? “If I could have done home Lorentz, James P. McCoy/Buffalo News; White, Getty Images; Anderson, Derek Gee/Buffalo News file photo; Prior, Joel Coleman, Special to the News; Munday, Gerard Martel, Special to the News; and News file photo I personally. But from 1985 until shchina” at the Vienna State Opera. Any time,” Lawless said. “And if games, I would have been fine 1991, the name of the former Batavia Bychkov fell in love with Mousso- they want to pay for it, that’s not a with that,” said Lorentz. “Different resident and longtime hostage rgsky’s “Boris Godonuv” when he problem.” time, different ownership, different ground – on the issue. And a few as the faculty adviser to Students those years and had to put myself 8, when his father moved the “high-tech,” Munday designed a was on almost every Western New conducted it a decade ago at the Met, - Colin Dabkowski philosophy. When I retired, I think months before leaving Buffalo in for Stewardship, Liberty’s first completely in God’s hands,” she said. family to a farmhouse in Caistor stripped-down version, just a long Yorker’s lips. He had his sister, Peggy and can’t wait to dive back into the they wanted more continuity. I 1999, as the noisy street confronta- environmental club. She followed “As a result, I have a greater trust in Centre. Munday worked as a diesel steel pipe covered with sprayed-on Say, to thank for that. moody Russian’s work. understand that.” tions began to lose steam, Prior her old Common Ground activ- God now.” mechanic, but in his spare time flew foam insulation, to take the plunge Anderson was taken captive A few things in Bychkov’s con- He believes it might take a while refused to participate in Operation ism with something called Level - Gene Warner both small airplanes and helicopters again. This barrel was launched Jessica White while working as a reporter for the stantly shifting life, fortunately, before the Sabres can turn it around Save America, portrayed as trying to Ground, helping foster dialogue at and made thousands of recreational early in the morning of July 16, nlike Brazil, or Sweden, Associated Press in Lebanon in are constant. One of them is his and become more watchable. confront “the enemies of our Lord.” a Los Angeles film festival between parachute jumps, eventually 1990, but ground to a halt in the Buffalo isn’t known as a 1985. He had not lived in Batavia wife, Marielle LaBeque, one half of Jim Lorentz “I would have to say three to four Prior left Buffalo in July 1999 for people of faith and the Lesbian, becoming a skydiving instructor. In low water on the rocks at the birthplace of internation- for years, but he still had a lot of the flashy two-piano sister duo the t was more than six years ago years,” said Lorentz. “It depends, too, a teaching job at Liberty University Gay, Bisexual and Transgender his mid-40s, his thoughts turned to brink of the Horseshoe. The barrel Ually known supermodels. family there, including several of LaBeque sisters. Bychkov met her in that former Buffalo Sabre on what they can pick up on the free in Lynchburg, Va. She’s still there, community. And she still proudly the Horseshoe Falls, which was on remained perched for two hours in But the Queen City can claim the his classmates from his graduating 1987, during his time in Buffalo, and analyst Jim Lorentz essentially agent market. With free agents, you almost 15 years later, primarily displays on her office wall a plaque John David “Dave” Munday his mind ever since an encounter the precarious spot, until Munday’s legendary Beverly Johnson, and at class at Batavia High School. they married in 1999. I said he was leaving the booth can turn it around pretty quickly. teaching British literature and for winning a leadership award from ohn David “Dave” Munday, he had as a child at the Canadian crew chief, Dan Perri of Thorold, least one other woman who knows But his older sister made sure They have lived for years in Paris. to go fishing. But they have all these young players having spent 4½ years chairing the the Buffalo Feminists for Life. the rural Canadian diesel National Exposition with Major Hill, brought a large crane to the brink to her way around a catwalk or a photo people did not forget him. She was a Bychkov, though, still treasures And despite some skepticism at the and draft choices and you just never university’s Department of English The 49-year-old Prior said her mechanic who made a splash a rapids barrel-rider and member of pluck the barrel from the water. studio. fixture in newspaper articles and on his American citizenship. His two time, that’s exactly what Lorentz did. know how they are going to turn out. and Modern Languages. pro-life convictions have remained J– literally – by going over the the famous Hill family of rivermen. Munday succeeded in going over Jessica White, the East Side television as she used every means children, now grown up, live in the Tired of the travel required for You can have all the No. 1 picks that “I have really thrived at Liberty as strong as ever. But living now falls in barrels in 1985 and 1993, left In 1985, Munday, 48, made his the Horseshoe again on Sept. 26, native who started modeling when she could imagine to keep his cause United States, one in Washington, the TV job, Lorentz left his seat you want but it doesn’t mean they University,” she said in a recent in a rural area, she’s devoted her the area in 2000 to start a new life first attempt to go over the falls in 1993, in a converted steel diving bell. she was a teenager at Kensington alive and fight for his freedom. D.C., and the other in New York City. alongside play-by-play man Rick are going to play in the league.” phone interview. “I love it here, and I passions and energy increasingly to in a small fishing village in Cape a barrel he and his brother-in-law, In the summer of 2000, retired High School, made it to the top of Eventually, she wrote a book about “I am an American citizen, for Jeanneret to go fishing and write a - Alan Pergament feel I have been well received.” other causes, including the Humane Breton, Nova Scotia. Ross Whitaker, designed and from his job and with his daredevil the industry by her 20s. her efforts called, appropriately, life, with no parole,” he jokes, and book on Atlantic salmon fishing. At Liberty, she’s received Society, agricultural and animal Munday, who was even liked by built in Munday’s shop. His crew days mostly behind him. Munday She had eight appearances in the “Forgotten.” giggles. “I wouldn’t like it any other Lorentz, who lives on Grand numerous awards, including the welfare and spaying/neutering. the Niagara Parks Police officers launched the barrel from well above pulled up stakes and moved into a Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue When Anderson didn’t come way. I have not taken any other citi- Island, has just about finished the Chancellor’s Award for Teaching Prior was asked how she now who tried to keep him away from the brink and the barrel became modest home in Cape Breton. He – once, in a blow to her hometown, home for nearly seven years, people zenship, which I can, because I am book “The Atlantic Salmon – Moody Excellence last year. views her public role during the the falls, quickly developed a close trapped by the Hydro turned 77 this month. with a Miami Dolphins jersey fasted and prayed and held vigils. married to a French citizen, and live and Mysterious.” Prior has always been her own abortion debate in Buffalo. network of friends and neighbors water control dam, which sticks In Cape Breton, Munday settled painted on her body – contracts They wore silver bracelets inscribed so many years in France. And there “It took me about six years, but I Karen Swallow Prior woman, never afraid to stand up for “I believe all those street-level there – most of whom have never out 2,000 feet from the shore 8,500 in immediately, savoring the with major beauty and fashion with his name. A sculpture bust of are other countries I could contem- think you have to remember I don’t n many ways, Karen Swal- what she believed. In Buffalo, she was battles in Buffalo and across the seen the falls and therefore cannot feet from the brink. Munday was slower-paced life. “The people are so companies and appearances in the him was made and displayed in the plate. But I have no wish to do that. write during the fishing season,” said low Prior reflected the local an academic in the pro-life leadership country catapulted the abortion quite grasp their daredevil friend’s mortified when Wesley Hill, Major different here,” he said. “I was look- gossip pages linking her to a string Genesee Country Mall in Batavia. America remains the land that I Lorentz. “I write mostly in the winter pro-life activist movement so dominated by the clergy. No pro- issue into the public conversation accomplishment. Hill’s brother, threw a rope on the ing for people that worked hard and of celebrity boyfriends. “I love you, I miss you very came to when I was penniless and months so it took me about two and a I that so dominated the Buffalo life activist earned more respect from and conscience,” she said. “I think One neighbor did get a chance barrel and knocked on the hatch, were honest, and I found them here.” When we last wrote about White much,” Anderson said to his family that really supported me. Individu- half years to do. I’m just finishing up area from the late 1980s through the pro-choice side. And she was it made a short-term difference in to travel to Niagara Falls and visit and he had to open the hatch and Munday never expected to at length, in 2008, she was taking a and supporters, in a taped state- als in America really supported me.” the last chapter on the conservation the 1990s, when Western New York a feminist in the male-dominated the lives of many people who faced the cataracts Munday has gone over climb out. “I always wanted to meet celebrate his 77th birthday, but not break from the fast-paced modeling ment in 1988. He said he treasures his memo- aspects of it and it changes so quickly served as a key battleground in the ranks of the pro-life leadership. abortion-related decisions in those twice. “He couldn’t believe it, eh?” you, but I thought it would be down because of the many risks he’s taken life, moving back to her hometown Finally, in December 1991, ries of Buffalo. And he proves it: it is hard to keep up with it.” national abortion debate. So how has all that played at years. And it had long-term effects Munday said, laughing. below,” Munday told Hill. throughout his life. “My dad said all of Buffalo, reconnecting with her Anderson was freed. His return visit Though his publicist doubted he Lorentz, who had written for She was on the front lines from Liberty University, founded by the on younger evangelicals who tend to “It’s hard to imagine,” said After paying his fine and picking our lives that a lifespan was 75 and church and launching a foundation to Genesee County a few months had time for any interviews, he some fishing magazines, concedes the start, dating to the bicycle-lock late, controversial Rev. Jerry Falwell? be more liberal on a range of social Gerard Martel, whose family is now up the barrel, Munday succeeded in then that was it,” he said. He never to help abused children. after his release – when he went made time for this call. that writing a book is a lot harder protests in 1988. She later became “In some ways, I don’t always issues but stay strongly committed among Munday’s closest friends in going over the falls on Oct. 5, 1985. thought he’d die at the falls. “No, no, She even registered to vote – as to the mall and broke the chains “How can one forget?” he said. “It than playing professional hockey. a major spokeswoman for the fit the stereotype of a conservative, to a pro-life ethic.” Cape Breton. “After seeing the falls, I He built a different barrel and rode no, no, I figured I had lots of time left a Democrat – during her return to on that bust – drew thousands of was nearly a decade of my connec- He played for the Sabres from local rescue movement. Always evangelical Christian,” she said. “But And her Buffalo days helped form can’t imagine being brave enough to it through the Whirlpool Rapids on after that. I never thought I’d die in Buffalo, and said she was building people. tion to the city, to its people. And the 1971-78, most memorably earning thoughtfully questioning her role in students have responded positively the person she has become, shaping go over once, much less twice.” Oct. 11, 1987. the barrel. I had a lot of confidence in a seven-bedroom dream house in During his captivity, Anderson friends remain friends. That hasn’t the nickname Batman after killing a that movement, she began seek- to those differences.” her convictions and her faith. Munday was born in Hamil- But stung by press descriptions the people that helped me, eh?” Orchard Park. – who became a household name disappeared.” bat in Memorial Auditorium during ing common ground – not middle A few examples: She’s served “I took a lot of risks during ton, where he lived until he was of his self-designed Falls barrel as - Anne Neville What has White, who turns 30 in part through the tireless efforts - Mary Kunz Goldman