Word: calif
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...celebrity who never risks unaccompanied strolls is Pop Singer Michael Jackson, the subject of this week's cover story. Jackson has become increasingly reclusive, avoiding interviews and using his family's palatial home in Encino, Calif, as a hideaway. When Worrell started working on the story, even Jackson's friends and family declined to speak with her. But just when it seemed that the entourage had erected an impenetrable shield, several people close to Jackson relented. Joseph and Katherine Jackson, Michael's parents, granted Worrell their first interviews in five years. And even though Michael himself...
...This award goes as much to my teammates as to me," said the Encino, Calif, native, explaining that there was an adjustment period following his return to the lineup, "then everything just clicked...
DIED. Jackie Coogan, 69, the actor who became the movies' first blockbuster child star when, at age six, he played the moonfaced ragamuffin in Charlie Chaplin's 1921 classic The Kid; of a heart attack; in Santa Monica, Calif. The son of vaudevillians, Coogan starred in such vehicles as Peck's Bad Boy (1921) and Tom Sawyer (1930), and in 1923 was voted America's most popular movie actor. "Other boys went to see Babe Ruth," he recalled a half-century later. "Babe Ruth came to see me." Though he had made more than $2 million...
DIED. Ditra Flame, 78, onetime violinist and missionary who was known as the Lady in Black for her mournful visitations to the tomb of Silent Screen Star Rudolph Valentino; in Ontario, Calif. Flame (pronounced Flah-may) never tired of recounting that when she was deathly ill at age 14, she was visited by Family Friend Valentino, who assured her she would survive and asked her to visit his grave if he should die, saying, "I fear loneliness more than anything in the world." After Valentino's fatal appendicitis at age 31 in 1926, Flame brought 13 roses...
...activists assembled that day to conduct a straw poll beauty pageant all the candidates except Sen. Gary W Hart (D-Colo) Hart was in New Hampshire with a busload of college-age volunteers. And while Walter F. Mondale. Sen John H Glenn (D-Ohio). Sen Alan M Cranston (D-Calif) and George S. McGovern hobnobbed with the Maine party establishment at a party sponsored cocktail party. Hart threw a party for his student workers at a Manchester ski lodge...