Word: exception
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...latest chapter in the life of PATTY HEARST, she's a novelist. Murder at San Simeon, written with fellow rebel blue blood Cordelia Frances Biddle, is the story of a death on the property of granddad William Randolph Hearst. "My parents never talked about him," says the novelist. "Except that he liked animals and Citizen Kane wasn't about him." Meanwhile, F. Lee Bailey, who defended Patty--a.k.a. terrorist Tania--in the 1970s, has his own book idea. According to Variety, it will feature O.J. Simpson and Hearst, who he says breached attorney-client privilege by badmouthing...
Thereafter, things very gradually slide downhill, except for the introduction of Elaine, the ex-nurse and one or two other details. The polite reason to give would be that Johansson and Palladino play their characters a little too thoroughly...
Jewell has no job now except for waiting, as the FBI examines articles seized from his home, especially his tools, which may offer evidence of a bomb's assembly. "Tools make peculiar marks," says an agent. "You can match them like a fingerprint." Voiceprints are much less exact, so it cannot be determined with scientific accuracy that Jewell's voice does or does not match the 911 caller's. The FBI is also said to be questioning some of Jewell's friends. Still, a week of sleuthing had unearthed no immediately incriminating evidence...
What's going on here? "Since he's no longer in the Senate," says a Dole staff member, "he can avoid tangling with the N.R.A. on this one." His avoidance tactic may be little noted and soon forgotten. Except by the families of those killed by terrorists--and perhaps some other citizens who may conclude in November that those who seek our trust shouldn't enjoy it until they stand...
...breakup of the band, JERRY HARRISON, TINA WEYMOUTH and CHRIS FRANTZ have formed the Heads and recorded an album, No Talking Just Head. "We called some of our friends to ask them to sing with us," says Frantz, whose friends include Debbie Harry and Michael Hutchence. "Everyone said yes except for David...