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...Once it is under way, the insanity defense will likely require that Hinckley's lawyers-members of the high-powered Washington firm of Williams and Connolly, home of Superlawyer Edward Bennett Williams-introduce as evidence every token of his preoccupation with Foster. A new addition to that curious lore surfaced last week, when authorities leaked a transcript of tape recordings, made by Hinckley last winter, of two telephone conversations he had with Foster. The calls, to the actress's Yale University dormitory in New Haven, were not acknowledged by her until last week. Says Foster...
...archivists is reviewing the remaining Nixon tapes. The former President's lawyers may cite the apparent leak in arguing that material in storage at the Archives is not safe and should be removed -causing further delay in the process of transcription. Even so, the new addition to Watergate lore may not be the last. Predicts one former top Nixon aide: "That's nasty stuff. There'll be more...
...home village on Monte a Pescia. Its rustic beauty was an ideal setting, as Pinocchio once explained to the talking cricket, in which "to chase butterflies, to climb trees and take little birds from their nests." Says Professor Rolando Anzilotti, president of the Carlo Collodi Foundation that promotes the lore of Pinocchio: "The book reflects the flavor of a country town where a child first opens his eyes to the world...
Francis Coppola also spilled a lot of blood in The Godfather, adding his bit of realism to the lore of gore. Until he came along, special effects men would fire wax pellets filled with cosmetic blood at actors who were to be shot. When they were "hit," they would yell "ouch!" or whatever else the scriptwriter demanded. Blood oozed out and the audience usually got the point. But the pellets left a blotch on the skin, which was not realistic in closeups. Ever the perfectionist, however, Coppola wanted not only blood but bullet holes. Smith covered the actor...
DIED. Meyer Levin, 75, prolific author and Zionist; of a stroke; in Jerusalem. Originally a Chicago newspaperman, Levin wrote novels, plays, documentary-film scripts and books of Jewish lore. His biggest success was Compulsion, a 1956 novel based on the sensational Leopold-Loeb murder case he later turned into a hit play and movie...