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...times their value for baubles once owned by that calcified drone of a woman, merely because another drone had resigned the crown of England to marry her 50 years before. Then there was the Andy Warhol auction, also in 1987, at which bidders sent the price of the defunct celeb's $25 black-mammy and teddy-bear cookie jars to $20,000 and beyond. And now--admittedly in a more chastened economic climate--we have the sale of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis' household effects, coming up April 23 through...
...YORK: After one of the more sensational rollouts in publishing history, John F. Kennedy Jr.'s celeb-studded political monthly "George" has hit its first public potholes. Eric Etheridge, the magazine's editor, is leaving after just two issues, citing "editorial differences." Kennedy, whose title is editor-in-chief, will reportedly assume Etheridge's hands-on duties at the magazine, a joint undertaking between Kennedy's Random Ventures Inc. and French publisher Hachette Filipacchi. From the beginning "George" defied the odds against political publications by selling 500,000 copies of its innaugural issue. And though it received favorable critical reviews...
After a high-profile day of duck hunting in Maryland, President Clinton flew to Little Rock for a vacation that differed markedly from his celeb-studded retreat on Martha's Vineyard last summer. The President's average-guy holiday included bowling and sitting in on a University of Arkansas basketball game. Clinton then headed for Hilton Head, South Carolina, to spend New Year's at the annual Renaissance Weekend, a social and policy retreat for caring, sensitive power brokers...
...constantly telling people he's not the big celeb they expect. "Don't you ever feel you've lived a few lives? Well, to me, the Beatles were another life," says McCartney. "Certain people when they get rich wear a lot of fur coats and big diamond watches. I've gone the other way. I'd rather be remembered as a musician than a celebrity," he says, standing up and snapping his fingers, signaling he wants to get back to work...
...focus with a closer look, for that same Lady Antonia is an internationally established historian, the author of best-selling biographies and a social activist. She is mother of six, protective wife of renowned playwright Harold Pinter, and also dashes off detective stories, wafts along the British TV celeb circuit, and displays an admirable tennis serve...