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...With my new spouse the Spy? I see her a couple times a week." Seeing that Babbs and I are dumb struck, Dr. Leary laughs and says, "I certainly don't hold it against her. She likes this espionage action. It gets her off. Who am I, of all people, to put down somebody else's turn-on?" And that's my little flower for Tim. Give 'em while they can smell...
Actress Mira Sorvino was very perceptive to observe that Marilyn Monroe's dumb-blond persona was just a facade [PEOPLE, April 8]. When I was a young resident physician, I had the pleasure of meeting Marilyn and playing a role in her medical care. Not only was she a kind and compassionate woman, but she was also highly intelligent and interested in a wide variety of subjects. One example: she asked about a book I was reading by Albert Einstein, describing his philosophy of life. She borrowed it, read it and thoughtfully discussed it with me. I always liked...
...said. He wrote to an earlier victim, Yale professor David Gelernter, saying, "If you had any brains, you would have realized that there are a lot of people out there who resent bitterly the way techno-nerds like you are changing the world, and you wouldn't have been dumb enough to open an unexpected package from an unknown source." Soon he was writing to the San Francisco Chronicle, threatening to blow up an airplane out of Los Angeles, which caused security to be tightened for several days. He promised to stop if the Times and the Washington Post would...
...matter of late night, it turns out that Littlefield wasn't so dumb after all. NBC may have had some last-minute qualms that Leno would be a big-chinned albatross, but his Tonight Show is now whipping Letterman soundly in the ratings. As for the rest of NBC's fortunes, Littlefield, 43, has confounded critics, who regarded him as something of an empty suit--a protege of NBC programming whiz Brandon Tartikoff who inherited Tartikoff's No. 1 schedule in 1990 and quickly let it slide to third place. Littlefield has not only kept his job for nearly...
ACCORDING TO EMERGE, THE BLACK NEWS MONTHLY, MINISTER LOUIS Farrakhan recently boasted, "When I speak, blind people see, deaf people hear, dumb people speak, the sick get healed and mentally dead people come to life." Those are not the Nation of Islam leader's only miraculous powers. He also has a knack for making bloodthirsty tyrants feel all warm and cuddly inside, if the price is right...