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DIED. CAMILO JOSE CELA, 85, Spanish writer, bon vivant and 1989 Nobel laureate in literature; in Madrid. The flamboyant author pioneered "tremendismo," a raw writing style that Spain would claim as its own, though Cela's first work, The Family of Pascal Duarte (1942), was considered so violent it was banned in his country and first published in Argentina. The novel eventually became one of the best-read works of Spanish fiction since Cervantes' Don Quixote...
...Winners DAME EDNA EVERAGE Cross-dressed Aussie gets role on Ally McBeal. You'll know they've jumped the shark when an Edna-Ally-Bon Jovi love triangle is revealed STEPHEN DOWNING Mentally impaired Briton is freed after 27 years in prison for a bum murder rap. At least he got to miss the Thatcher years LARRY KING Voluble host re-signs with CNN for nearly $7 million a year. Heck, we'd chat with a totally with-it babe like Angie Dickinson for free Losers QUEEN ELIZABETH II Her Majesty may sacrifice her royal train to cut costs...
...Often he showed his collegiality the best way he knew, by writing in the style of other composers' work. As a bon-voyage gift to Cole Porter before a 1935 sailing, Berlin roguishly parodied Porter's recent hit "You're the Top: "You're the burning heat/ Of a bridal suite/ In use,/ You're the breasts of Venus/ You're King Kong's penis/ You're self-abuse!" In 1948, for a Bob Hope Christmas tour in support of the Berlin airlift, he adapted the Ralph Rainger-Leo Robin "Thanks for the Memory." The bridge went: "Thanks...
...Bon Pain was not evacuated with the rest of the Holyoke Center complex, and Griffin indicated that “more work and coordination with commercial tenants” would be necessary in future drills or in the event of an actual crisis...
...Bon Pain’s service continued normally during the evacuation...