Word: heiress
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Jailed newspaper heiress Patricia Hearst found ways to fill the idle hours as defense attorney F. Lee Bailey prepared to argue that she had been brainwashed into participating in an armed bank robbery by the Symbionese Liberation Army: "Patty is popular among fellow prisoners, some of whom have returned to visit her after serving their time. She has been crocheting colorful shawls for her mother and some inmates, and [defense attorney Al] Johnson suggested that she crochet him a ski mask--forgetting for a moment that the Carmichael, Calif., bank robbery for which she may face charges was the work...
...another variation on one of soapdom's archetypal conflicts: the pitting of the poor, conniving, tube-top-wearing vixen against the tasteful, trust-funded beauty. Peyton Richards (Jamie Luner) is the former, Savannah's pre-eminent troublemaker; her rival is the kindly, blond Reese Burton (Shannon Sturges), an heiress with the IQ of Spanish moss...
...HEIRESS This Broadway revival of Ruth and Augustus Goetz's 1947 melodrama, itself adapted from Henry James' 1880 novel Washington Square, speaks with the confident simplicity of all-around excellence: skillful direction by Gerald Gutierrez, inventive sets and lighting, and an icy, crystalline performance by Cherry Jones as the triumphantly loveless spinster...
...plot: Casper searches for a friend and finds one in Kat (Christina Ricci), a lonely girl now in residence at sepulchral Whipstaff Manor. Among the contenders for possession of this dark old house, which looks like a tyrant's wedding cake that has started to melt, are a venal heiress (the ripely funny Cathy Moriarty) and her sidekick (Eric Idle); Casper's uncles, three ectoplasmic boors named Stretch, Fatso and Stinkie; and Kat's klutzy dad (crinkly Bill Pullman...
...court-appointed investigator determined that tobacco heiress Doris Duke's death was hastened by stronger and more frequent doses of morphine, administered by her doctor, Charles F. Kivowitz. Duke, who died in 1993, left an estate of $1.2 billion and no natural heirs. The report also detailed Duke's butler and companion Bernard Lafferty's spending of hundreds of thousands of dollars in estate funds since he was named co-executor...