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Philandering former presidential political guru and fink-du-jour DICK MORRIS doesn't have much luck when it comes to the tabloids. One such publication blew the lid off his high-powered job as Clinton's chief political strategist when it published photos of him having strategic sessions with a woman who was clearly not his wife--or another consultant. And now a tabloid has published excerpts from his new book, Behind the Oval Office, thus helping wipe out his chances of having a magazine pay to excerpt it. Morris opens the book with an apology to his wife, President...
DIED. MARIA CASARES, 74, grande dame of the French theater; of undisclosed causes; in La Vergne, France. A commanding presence, Casares took on nearly every classic female stage role, from Lady Macbeth to Medea--and played King Lear to boot. Her films include Les Enfants du Paradis, Orphee and La Lectrice...
DIED. MARCEL CARNE, 90, French film director; in the Paris suburb of Clamart. Carne's Les Enfants du Paradis (1945), made in collaboration with poet and screenwriter Jacques Prevert, is widely considered by critics to be one of the best films of all times...
...suburbia. But it will soon, unless I do something about it, and that prospect has spurred me, along with my neighbors, to churn out a torrent of letters, petitions and telephone calls. Why, we wonder, must Dallas-based PrimeCo Personal Communications plop its tower in a residential area of Du Page County, Illinois, when there are plenty of other sites nearby where it wouldn't be so conspicuous or so jarring...
...count. Suzanne Jenkins and her Florida neighbors have been living since August in the shadow of a 150-ft. tower that sprouted, toadstool-like, almost overnight. A month ago, however, the company that built it, InterCel, bowed to community pressure and consented to take the tower down. Here in Du Page County, PrimeCo has agreed to consider other sites. "If these companies aren't careful," says Gayle Franzen, chairman of the Du Page County board, "they may get the one thing they don't want"--a tough new set of regulations...