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...flung as Manhattan, St.-Tropez and Gstaad. He had use of family helicopters and his father's yacht. In recent years he was one of the jet set's most renowned hosts, throwing parties in Beverly Hills populated by such celebrities as Tony Curtis, Farrah Fawcett and Robert Downey Jr. Guests say his hospitality ran to the grandiose, including a recent gala in a private home that featured a bowling alley, a band and movie showings in a screening room. It was reported that he owned five Ferraris...
Never kick a man while he's in rehab. It's a painful lesson learned by the New York Daily News after it erroneously reported that Robert Downey Jr. was at the Mondrian hotel's so-cool-the-staff-is-icy Sky Bar in L.A. Problem I: Downey's on parole and isn't allowed in bars. Problem II: Downey was on set in Savannah, Georgia. Solution: Downey's suing the Daily News...
...about (you guessed it) people. Charles Kuralt is the host for I Remember, in which reporters talk about their reaction to major news events, like the Oklahoma City bombing. Paula Zahn anchors Fast Forward, which takes a look at people who used to be in the news, from Morton Downey Jr. to George McGovern. Final Cut will run unedited versions of interviews previously broadcast in shorter form on various CBS shows, while 60 Minutes More and 48 Hours Later will reprise and do follow-ups on stories aired earlier by those magazine shows...
First comes the transgression, then the confession. In ROBERT DOWNEY JR.'s case, the confessor is DIANE SAWYER, who taped an interview with the troubled actor in his rehabilitation center for PrimeTime Live. Apart from admitting he "was under the influence when doing most all" of Home for the Holidays, a movie for which he got some creditable reviews, Downey says that after he was first put in jail on drug-possession charges, he called his wife, who refused to bail him out. "That's when I started realizing: my God, people are really happy that I'm in jail...
...ROBERT DOWNEY JR., it can be safely said, has never been considered the most wholesome of actors. But even seasoned Downey watchers were alarmed when he was found, mere hours after being charged with drug possession, asleep in a stranger's house four blocks from his home. The homeowner, who discovered him when she put her children to bed, called the police, and Downey spent the night in a hospital-jail ward. He left the next day wearing slippers and a hat fashioned from a T shirt. By week's end, damage control was in full swing: Downey...