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...also one of the most topical strips. Gray died in 1968; the strips that run today in 300 papers were all drawn by him during the Depression of the 1930s. "S'po sin' we are pretty hard up right now," Annie recently told her companion Ginger, a flower vendor, in a rerun of a Nov. 19, 1936 panel. "What of it?" Annie continues. "We know doggoned well we're not goin' to stay that...
...farce, tragedy or bathos? Maria Schneider, 22, star of Last Tango in Paris, signed herself into a psychiatric hospital while filming Carlo Ponti's The Babysitter in Rome. Not for treatment, but simply to be with her inseparable companion of the past two years, Joan ("Joey") Townsend, 28, the daughter of ex-president of Avis Robert Townsend, who wrote Up the Organization. Joan had been picked up that morning at Fiu-micino Airport, babbling irrationally. On learning that her friend had been taken to a psychiatric hospital, Maria rushed to join her. The following three days were macabre. Paparazzi...
...cast of characters straight. There are five principal actors in the bizarre Rosoff saga: 1) Jo Oppenheimer, 39, tousled, troubled and wealthy; 2) Adolph ("Dolph") Rosoff, 52, a familiar Greenwich Village character, who is now languishing in jail; 3) Thelma ("Teddy") Sucker Feldman, 51, his longtime companion and a self-styled therapist, who is also in jail; 4) Micah, 25, Teddy's son by a 1945 marriage, who spirited David away on Dolph and Teddy's instructions; and 5) the missing David, who is now twelve, the offspring of Jo and Dolph...
...from diabetes, Roberts, now 50, quit his job a year ago as a partner at Spencer-Roberts, a California political public relations agency, and resolved to do something about the way people die. The result is Threshold, a new Los Angeles business that has trained and will supply "death companions" to help ease lonely, dying clients out of the world. The cost: $7.50 an hour, of which the companion keeps...
...dying bequests made to a companion will automatically go to a nonprofit corporation that Threshold is setting up to pay for companions to the indigent. The company is also branching out to sponsor workshops on dying for hospital personnel, the terminally ill and the general public. There may be more services to come. "Dying is spectacular," says Roberts. "I've even thought of making some kind of production out of it -like having the Mormon Tabernacle Choir come sing at your bedside, if you could afford...