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...always put on a great show, but until recently it has been mostly onstage, not onscreen. At the dawn of her solo career 15 years ago, Bette (rhymes with pet, sweat, coquette and martinet but never regret) declared her intention to become a "legend." She made good on the boast with a song- and-comedy act that elicited raucous laughs and heaving sobs on both sides of the footlights. She was the Callas of Camp, peppering her program with naughty jokes in the spirit of Mae West and Sophie Tucker. Midler's good-timey raunch made her famous...
Every Valentine's Day for more than a decade, every female freshman has found a card, sometimes sexually explicit, slipped under her door signed by the mysterious Fairfax, who, according to Princeton legend, was once a senior rejected by a freshman woman at a school party...
According to the legend, Henry Fairfax forgot the name of the woman who rejected him, but remembered that she was a freshman. Hoping to find the right woman, the story runs, he sent Valentine's cards to every female freshman at Princeton professing his true love...
...although legend has it that some addicts have had to take time off because academics took second place to foosball, not everyone takes his foos so seriously. Even for the foosers who rank in the upper echelon of the Quincy ladder, it's still just a game...
...latest inventory of possessions left behind in Malacanang Palace by the fleeing Marcoses last February. Also listed were 508 floor- length gowns, 888 handbags and 71 pairs of sunglasses. The final tally on Imelda's shoes was 1,060 pairs, less than the 3,000 originally reported. Still, the legend of the shoes lives on. Included was one pair, fitted with batteries, that sparkles in the dark...