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...problems plaguing Hollywood producer STEVE BING, lack of virility is not one. Actress ELIZABETH HURLEY says Bing is the father of her newborn son, a claim he is fighting in court. Now he is also being cited as the father of Kira Kerkorian. Until recently, Kira, 4, the daughter of Bing's ex-girlfriend Lisa Bonder, was believed to have been sired by Bonder's former husband, billionaire movie-studio mogul Kirk Kerkorian. In January Bonder, 37, petitioned Kerkorian, 84, for $320,000 a month in child support. His lawyers say he is sterile and could not possibly...
...distinctions between reality and marketing began to blur when Ogami went Hollywood. By 2001, his operations included a subsidiary called G. Cosmos that had gathered 20,000 members in the Philippines and 30,000 in Indonesia, collecting about $1 million in each country. G.O. Group was preparing to launch in Taiwan, Singapore and Hong Kong. To spread his name around the region, Ogami began production of his long-nurtured dream: an action movie starring himself...
...DIED. WALTER LORD, 84, narrative historian and author of popular historical accounts such as A Night to Remember (on the Titanic) and Day of Infamy (Pearl Harbor); in New York City. For A Night to Remember-which was made into a 1958 Hollywood movie-Lord tracked down 60 survivors of the disaster. He also served as a consultant for the 1998 blockbuster film Titanic. DIED. STEPHEN JAY GOULD, 60, paleontologist whose theory of evolution challenged that of Charles Darwin's, of cancer; in New York City. Gould, who famously called human evolution "a fortuitous cosmic afterthought," authored The Mismeasure...
...deeper watches of the night? But you truck on out to the theater, and find yourself confronting a well-made, even occasionally witty, thriller in the "Fail Safe", "Seven Days in May" vein. Once more, dear friends, on to the brink. You come away reasonably pleased with a slick Hollywood fantasy...
...Face it, car crashes and train wrecks are only half as alluring as seeing a Hollywood castoff getting pummeled. And we're far from done. There are decades' worth of Hollywood Squares guests...