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...London audiences of the early 18th century, Italian opera meant heroic plots, lavish sets and dazzling vocalism. It also meant a German-born composer with an anglicized name who had successfully transplanted a hothouse species to the neighborhood around Covent Garden...
...senate. Married and with three children, Deukmejian is unabashedly square in his habits and style. Weekends, he commutes to his family home in Long Beach. During the week he stays in a Sacramento apartment, eating frozen dinners and pizzas many nights. (He was prevented from moving into the lavish Governor's mansion built by Reagan when the Democrats voted not to provide funds for the Xanadu...
...guest of honor at the lavish state dinner was Chinese Premier Zhao Ziyang. But when Burt Reynolds, 47, arrived at the White House arm in arm with his old flame Dinah Shore, 66, the Washington press corps quickly turned its attention from international to personal politics. "I wouldn't tell you if it was true," stonewalled Reynolds, as he tried to fend off a barrage of questions about his relationships with Shore and Actress Sally Field, 37, who also happened to be in town. Reynolds was eventually pulled to safety by Nancy Reagan, 62, who teasingly told...
...life of Woolworth Heiress Barbara Hutton (seven marriages, lavish escapades, hints of insanity) was chronicled as it happened, in gossip columns. A new biography of Hutton is also being talked about in the columns, but this time the whispers involve the writer and publisher, not the subject...
...author claims to have employed "six or seven" researchers during his four-year labor. But in a Los Angeles Times survey, seven of nine principals whose words and thoughts Heymann duly recorded claim they were never interviewed. To support Hutton's own version of a lavish Paris party, Heymann adds the observation that Composer Ned Rorem saw her dancing "moodily with Aly Khan." But Rorem's Paris Diary notes instead that Hutton danced with "one of the forgotten gigolos...