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Died. Mathilda Kschessinska, 99, prima ballerina assoluta of the Russian Imperial Ballet at the turn of the century and mistress of the Czarevich before he became Nicholas 11; in Paris. Isadora Duncan described her as "more like a lovely bird or butterfly than a human being," and Nijinsky tore at...
In 1969 Dory Previn was one of the country's top lyricists, and her collaboration setup seemed ideal. Teamed with her husband, Composer Andre Previn, she had written songs for a dozen films, including Valley of the Dolls, Irma La Douce and Goodbye, Charlie. Two of their songs had...
Then, 2½ years ago, Andre left Dory to live with Mia Farrow, and Dory's psyche cracked. She spent four months in a sanitarium. "With Andre gone, I thought, 'God has canceled out, I'm canceled out.' And so, while I was in the hospital...
After a year of that, Dory tried modeling, but at 5 ft. 5 in. she was too short. She got a job as a chorus girl in a road company of Top Banana, but was fired on the road. Too broke to get back to New York, she holed up...
Thousands of avenues and streets, including the famed Place de l'Etoile in Paris, have been renamed in his honor. More than 1,000,000 copies of books about De Gaulle, including Andre Malraux's Fallen Oaks, have been sold. A spectacular called La France de Charles de...