Word: heiresses
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...rich "are different from you and me," wrote F. Scott Fitzgerald. "Yes," Ernest Hemingway appended, "they have more money." But Claus and Sunny von Bulow, at least as represented in this marvelously sad and funny docucomedy, really were different. She, the depressive Newport heiress, with a frail hauteur in her demeanor and a well-stocked pharmacy in her purse. He, Danish-born and smartly foppish, living off her wealth and at her whim. Not Eurotrash exactly -- aristotrash. When in 1981 Claus was accused of attempting to murder Sunny with insulin injections, leaving her in a coma from which...
Souter's belief system mirrors that of an aunt, a Simmons College professor and Cambridge dowager who swam Lake Winnipesaukee in her 70s, was conservative socially and politically but liberal in her concern for other people. Although she was an heiress of the Boston & Maine Railroad who didn't need the money, she became a pioneering medical social worker at Massachusetts General Hospital...
...bucks backer: tobacco heiress Doris Duke. Unruffled by sums requiring two commas, Duke posted $5 million bail for her close friend Imelda and, it is rumored, plunked down further millions for Spence...
...talent for two people, so she also writes mysteries under the name of Barbara Vine. They usually concern a crime committed long ago; this time, Gallowglass (Harmony; 272 pages; $19.95) shifts from past to present, from first person to third, like sand in an hourglass. The kidnaping of an heiress was foiled years ago; now the same man tries to commit the same crime, this time with the aid of the naive narrator. An attempt is made to bribe the woman's bodyguard; when he refuses, the malefactors kidnap his young daughter with catastrophic results. As a plotter, Vine could...
...Stephen. As a smarmily sadistic guard, Willem Dafoe. The parents of slutty Wanda (Traci Lords) are assayed by Ozzie and Harriet's own David Nelson and, in her movie debut, Patricia Hearst. The mind wanders: Is this the first time in Hollywood history that a famous abducted heiress has played mother to a famous underage porn princess...