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Whoever plays Robert Durst in the TV movie had better have range, because Durst has displayed a bounty of personas over the years: Manhattan playboy, heir to a real estate fortune, jealous husband, fugitive and, in the opinion of some, devious killer. Durst, 60, was acquitted last week of murdering his elderly neighbor, Morris Black, in Galveston, Texas. The verdict was a shock because Durst has a history of finding himself close to people who die or disappear and because he himself described grisly details surrounding Black's demise. In court he admitted dismembering the body but said he recalled...
...Canada if he wanted the job. But the post is to be taken by a man who spoke after him at the Liberal Party convention in Toronto last week, Paul Martin. A former Finance Minister who has had the longest dauphinate since Brian Williams was first tagged as the heir to Tom Brokaw, Martin will soon replace Jean Chretien, who has led Canada for a decade. Last week the Liberals elected Martin party boss on Chretien's retirement, and the Prime Ministership, for which he has been preparing half his life, will soon...
DIED. C.Z. GUEST, 83, avatar of high society and syndicated gardening columnist; in Old Westbury, N.Y. After a rebellious youthful turn as a show girl (and posing nude for Diego Rivera), she married the heir to a steel fortune in 1947 on Ernest Hemingway's Havana plantation and went on to become a mainstay of society columns and best-dressed lists for years...
This is part of the reason why, despite his talent, Mazza is reluctant to lay claim to the title of heir to Morris’ legacy. He has seen the same recruiting song-and-dance enough times to be wary of any guarantees of glory...
...clear--even though I can't refer to the specifics of the allegation--that it is totally untrue and without a shred of evidence." AIDE TO PRINCE CHARLES, denying a rumor about a royal family member that the media is barred from printing but confirming that it involves the heir to the throne...