Word: affair
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They will need all the help they can get. According to Ivan Nagy, a burly Hungarian emigre and shady, fringe-TV director (Starsky and Hutch), Heidi has the goods on all her clients: names, dates, phone tapes, encounters. Nagy, who had a turbulent affair with Heidi, recalls that the two were in bed on one occasion when Heidi delightedly waved a $10,000 corporate check in his face and cooed, "I'd like to see you get a check like this...
SHOW: MARILYN & BOBBY: HER FINAL AFFAIR...
Oliver Stone was attacked for stretching the facts about the Kennedy assassination in JFK. Author Joe McGinniss is getting slammed for inventing thoughts and dialogue for his new biography of Ted Kennedy. If no similar outcry greets Marilyn & Bobby: Her Final Affair, it is because tawdry "fact- based" TV movies have become too common to get riled over. This one, moreover, inoculates itself with a disclaimer at the outset: "A fictionalized account inspired by the public lives of Marilyn Monroe and Robert F. Kennedy." None of which can entirely excuse this USA Network movie from responsibility for breaking new ground...
...film cobbles together its story line from every half-baked rumor that ever surfaced about the famous pair. Bobby and Marilyn had a torrid affair, we learn, that was witnessed almost every step of the way by surveillance men hired by Jimmy Hoffa. The Teamsters boss even orders Bobby killed, but the would-be assassin, after training his telescopic sight on the couple smooching in a park, chickens out. Good thing, since Mafia boss Sam Giancana shortly thereafter tells Hoffa to lay off because the Mob is "doing a little business" with the Kennedy brothers...
Hoffa isn't the only one monitoring the affair. FBI director J. Edgar Hoover (whose phone is answered in the middle of the night by the fellow sharing his bed) blackmails Bobby with damaging photos. That forces Kennedy to break off the affair, which leaves Marilyn so distraught that she takes a fatal overdose of sleeping pills. The suicide scene is the film's lunatic climax: so many people scurry in and out of Marilyn's house as the actress lies dying (among them Peter Lawford, Bobby himself and an ambulance team that rushes her to the hospital and then...