Word: hanger-on
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...March, sensationalist headline followed sensationalist headline. Finally, it seemed, all the ugly details were out. The dissolute star had died from an injected overdose of heroin and cocaine-a "speedball."* Public interest wandered on to more seemly news. But now comes a squalid epilogue: Cathy Smith, 35, a sorry hanger-on who was apparently the last person to see Belushi alive, has claimed that she gave him numerous drug injections, including the fatal one. Smith, a Canadian, is in Toronto, and she has not been charged with any crime. Still, the police and district attorney in Los Angeles have reopened...
...kidnapers were identified as agents of a new British firm called Single Point Security Ltd., then released on the grounds that no immigration laws were violated. They were hired by John Miller, a British ne'er-do-well and hanger-on at the fringes of London's upper crust. Miller claimed he had been paid nearly $70,000 by an unknown benefactor for advance rights to the story and film rights of Biggs' capture. Explained Miller: "I have no personal vindictiveness against Biggs. I guess he robbed his train for the same reason we're doing...
...would be to no effect if Misia were just a lucky hanger-on. But as Diaghilev recognized, her taste was accurate. Her occasional criticism stung and enraged Stravinsky, who often played his music first for her. For decades she helped support the composer generously and without question. With the men she loved, she was not so wise. She had a pathetic way of attracting younger women into her circle who could be counted on to steal her man. She was as slow to see this as she was quick to spot the first signs of young genius. Roussy Mdivani...
...early '60s, the author suddenly enters the picture, standing at poolside at Hickory Hill. And once the reader learns that he was pushed in, fully clothed, by Mo Udall's wife, the image of Schlesinger as scholar is suddenly transformed to the image of Schlesinger as hanger-on, as Kennedy groupie...
...aging beach comber sifting through the wreckage of his life for those few irreducible fragments of value that might justify it. He gets a surprisingly strong boost from David Hemmings, the onetime hip photographer in Blow-Up, who here turns in a pungent character portrayal as a local hanger-on equally devoted to Hudson...