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...guests and other glitterati who have bought shahtooshes have endured far more than a few pints of fake blood: Christie Brinkley, Blaine Trump and a host of other customers were reportedly summoned before a federal grand jury this summer to hear the bad news that the scarves--which can fetch up to $15,000--are not just wretchedly expensive; they're also illegal. "I was told that the hair came from the chin of the ibex goat," says Kempner. "That [the goats] rubbed it into the rocks and villagers picked it up and wove it into shawls." That...
Without question, Lo's Diary should be published. But it needn't be read. This slip of a thing never emerges from the shadows that tower over it: those of Humbert--that predatory wretch condemned to sing so beautifully of his sin--and his grand, glowering creator. It will have utility only if it leads readers back to the immortal original. Choir, please turn to page 9 of The Annotated Lolita. All together now: "Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul...
WOULD YOU BELIEVE? At Friday's auction at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, Elvis Presley's draft card was sold for a whopping $22,500! Viva Las Booming Economy...
...ALEX LOWE, 40, perhaps the greatest American mountaineer in recent years; in a massive avalanche on Tibet's Shisha Pangma, the world's 14th highest peak. Lowe climbed the nose of El Capitan in 10 hrs. and made the first solo ascent of the north face of Wyoming's Grand Teton. He conquered Everest twice. Despite the superlatives regularly heaped on him by colleagues, he said, "I'm just the world's most dogmatic climber...
...police arrived, on the night JonBenet was killed. The overwhelming belief that the parents had something to do with their daughter's demise led to accusations that Boulder County D.A. Alexander Hunter is shielding the well-to-do ? and well-connected ? Ramseys from the brunt of the investigation. The grand jury, however, could find nothing with which to nail them ? or anyone else. Now it looks as if JonBenet's death, for nearly three years the subject of national interest ? and obsession ? will become a matter for state investigators. At this stage, whatever trail of evidence there might have been...