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Colacello can be funny when he notes that the drawback to linking up with high-visibility people like Imelda Marcos is "their tendency to attract assassins." But mostly, he is petty and meanspirited. He fittingly closes with a bit of celebrity mugging that serves as a pathetic epitaph for his putative patron. In a group invited to Warhol's house after his death, Colacello takes the opportunity to steal into Warhol's private bathroom so that he can catalog the anti-aging cosmetics and acne ointments for inclusion on the last page of this book. These two creatures of hype...
...rode subways to his court appearances as a co-defendant in the Imelda Marcos trial, and his billions have shrunk to mere millions, if that. But after acquittal, the Saudi financier rose from the ashes and flew to Houston to announce formation of a new oil venture. Its name? Phoenix...
...phone at the presidential house on Arlegui Street began ringing at 5 a.m. despite a long-standing order that the resident not be awakened except in the event of another coup attempt. For Corazon Aquino, the news that Imelda Marcos had just been acquitted of fraud and racketeering charges in a New York court must have been nearly as distressing. The President's office reacted by tersely reaffirming Aquino's decision "not to allow the return of Mrs. Marcos at the present time." But across the Pacific, a vindicated Marcos told reporters, "I think I should be able to come...
...widows, an icy clash of politics and personalities that has already galvanized the nation by pitting the country's most powerful women against each other. "Everybody is shivering with excitement," says Teodoro Benigno, who served as Aquino's press secretary until 1989. "It's the Cory mystique against the Imelda mystique...
...husband Benigno (Ninoy) Aquino, who was gunned down at the Manila airport in 1983. Marcos is said to look upon Aquino as an insolent upstart who stole Malacanang Palace from her and the late Ferdinand. "Although they are poles apart when it comes to morality," observes Benigno, "Cory and Imelda are twins when it comes to grit, determination and obstinacy...