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...Cleopatra Haslip was admitted to a hospital emergency room. While the diagnosis was disturbing -- a kidney infection -- Haslip rested more easily knowing that her insurance policy would cover her medical expenses. But she soon discovered that the insurance agent, Lemmie Ruffin, had pocketed her payments, leaving her with no protection. Haslip, a mother of five who made $8,800 a year as an employee of Roosevelt City, Ala., found herself stuck with $3,500 in medical bills. As a result, her credit rating was ruined and she was successfully sued by her doctor. Enraged, Haslip filed a lawsuit against Ruffin...
...late or not at all many other days and enraged studio bosses when she left the set to fly to Washington for President Kennedy's birthday party. As shooting fell further and further behind schedule, Fox executives, already reeling from budget overruns on the Elizabeth Taylor-Richard Burton extravaganza Cleopatra, fired her and sued for breach of contract. But they quietly hired her back weeks later when co-star Dean Martin, out of loyalty to Monroe, refused to work with the actress chosen to replace her, Lee Remick. Monroe died before filming could resume...
...theme suites upstairs are equally preposterous: gold-sprinkled carpets, Jacuzzis in the bedrooms, Egyptian murals in the Cleopatra suite, cherubim on the ceiling of the Michelangelo suite and, in the King Tut suite, lots of the sort of bric-a-brac a king likes to be buried with. Prices start at $250 a night for 1,200 sq. ft. and run to $10,000 for the 4,200-sq.-ft. Alexander the Great suite. But costs are incidental, since most of these luxury accommodations are reserved, on the house, for high rollers. "It has the most beautiful suites that have...
...York City, helped by $1,000 saved for him by his brother. A decade of stage work culminated in 1985 with a major Broadway role: as Huck Finn's "Pap" in the hit musical Big River. In 1987, while appearing in a Los Angeles production of Antony and Cleopatra, Goodman was asked to audition for a new sitcom opposite Roseanne Barr. The reading was an instant success. "I knew I had the part when I walked out," he recalls. The producers were so sold on Goodman that they delayed the show until he could finish shooting Everybody's All American...
Baker, as author Phyllis Rose observes in this elegant, judicious biography, actually "had little subtlety and less angst." Still, as the evolution from cabaret "jungle bunny" to boulevard nobility suggests, she was a woman of Cleopatra-like variety and contradiction. Baker was cheerfully promiscuous, yet loyal in a way to a few paternalistic men who meant more to her than a year of one-night stands. Childless herself, she eventually adopted twelve infants of different races, accumulating a rambunctious family she called the "Rainbow Tribe." Baker built her career in Europe, partly to escape the humiliations of a racist America...