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...just walk away." Last year the RATP released Correspondances, an album featuring the Metro's best performers. Like any good showbiz impresario, Naso makes space in his otherwise cramped office for a couple of trophy snapshots. One shows him with Prince Albert of Monaco, another with enduring French rock icon, Johnny Hallyday...
...First Lady, who took up the cause after her husband developed Alzheimer's, had earlier written to President Bush in favor of federal funding. But this is the first time Mrs. Reagan has spoken out publicly on the issue. Proponents of the California initiative hope that advocacy by an icon of the conservative movement will help neutralize resistance to the November bond measure...
...must be tough to bring dates home when Dad is a rock icon. Mick Jagger's daughter ELIZABETH JAGGER, a model, found a harmonious solution--date a guy who understands the gig. "They are so in love," Elizabeth's mom Jerry Hall told the British press of Elizabeth and her new beau, SEAN LENNON. "We had all these incredible family sing-songs with him around the piano." Lennon's rep declined to comment, and Elizabeth's says the pair are "friends." Here's hoping they progress to procreating--their children could frolic with Coldplay's tykes...
...CULTURAL ICON. DO YOU FEEL AS IF YOU'VE FINALLY GOT SOME RESPECT? Maybe other people feel that way. I don't picture myself as anything. I could never be a big shot. When I go into a hotel and a bellhop grabs my bag, I feel like I should be carrying it. I'm just one of the masses. I know that people like me, but I don't lay it on so much...
...boardroom at DC Comics, a life-size statue of Clark Kent sits in a chair reading the Daily Planet. Lately the talk is probably making him a little nervous. Superman is still the company's flagship icon, but Batman outsells him, and the original superhero hasn't starred in a movie for 17 years. But help may be on the way. DC is installing new creative talent on all three main monthly Superman comics, starting with the June issues. "Periodically there's just a moment that happens when a new generation of talent steps in, and you get some fresh...