Word: heiress
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...lonely women who had been made foolish and poorer by the gigolo and his lieutenants were listed, sensitively, on the federal indictment only as Victim A, Victim B and so forth. But Victim L was identified there on the page: Helen Brach, the candy heiress who vanished 17 years ago. Where had she gone? Her name was on the ledger with Rub the Lamp, Belgium Waffle, Rainman, Roseau Platiere and Empire -- Thoroughbred horses that had been murdered for the insurance. Brach's body has never been found...
Almost every state has at least one free-spending plutocrat. The first time New York voters met furniture-fortune heiress Bernadette Castro, she was four years old and perched on one of her family's fold-out sofas in a TV commercial. She appeared in dozens of Castro Convertible ads after that. When the New York State Republican Party chose her last month as its nominee for the U.S. Senate, they claimed that name recognition was a major factor. But there was another consideration: ever since her family sold the business last | year, Castro, now 49, has been sitting atop...
...least while the movie's on. Glenn Close as his ferociously virginal sister has to work pretty near Mel Brooks country (Remember Cloris Leachman in Young Frankenstein?), but she keeps burrowing toward the character's repressed pain -- and quite touchingly reveals it. And if Ryder is the headstrong heiress of a thousand movies, the simple clarity of her playing redeems the cliche...
Gallows humor? No: a robust fascination with the depths of human experience. "John is actually more normal than he wants people to think he is," says Patricia Hearst -- yes, that Patty Hearst, once an heiress on the lam, now a regular in Waters' movies...
DEATH DISCOVERED. SCOTT DOUGLAS, 38, husband of murdered newspaper heiress Anne Scripps Douglas; an apparent suicide; in New York. Douglas disappeared three months ago after the bludgeoning death of his wife, leaving his car idling on an upstate bridge. The family believed he had faked his own suicide. The discovery of his body on the banks of the Hudson River proves otherwise...