Word: lover
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...deliver. Until his death in 1984, he maintained that Answered Prayers was still in the works and even finished. An inventory of his literary effects failed to back the claim. Fox offers a number of admittedly shaky theories, among them that the manuscript was stolen by a former lover or that Capote stashed it in an undisclosed safe-deposit box or, according to one rumor, in a locker at the Los Angeles Greyhound Bus Depot. It is more likely, the editor adds, that he destroyed the missing chapters. Gerald Clarke, author of the upcoming biography Capote, points out that...
...Jackie Kennedy ("I want all ((my outfits)) to be original and no fat little women hopping around in the same dress"), and his memoir of Camelot is lively. He also offers good gossip, recounting Aly Khan's sexual techniques or a little joke Zsa Zsa Gabor played on a lover. But the book's main charm is the author's portrait of himself as Playboy, Second Class -- a man who had to hustle his own pleasures and did so with gusto...
...past two decades, and it's been audiences who've felt the inconvenience of his caustic, mad wit. He was so talented, even the cheeky, musical imps of the perverse, The Beatles, had Orton working on an original screenplay when he was bludgeoned to death by his homosexual lover Kenneth Halliwell...
...lady's calculations resulted in a different conclusion. She said she married Holm, her live-in lover for 2 1/2 years, only so he would not feel like a dog trailing behind her. Even so, Collins testified, she had made him sign a prenuptial agreement giving him only 20% of her earnings during their marriage and nothing more in case of divorce. Not so, answered Holm. He claimed the document merely signified their mutual respect...
...third day, Collins' lawyer, well-known Palimony Specialist Marvin Mitchelson, brought in a pretty scene stealer: Romina Danielson, 23, an Italian-Iranian who said she had been Holm's lover through much of his 13- month marriage to Collins. While Collins glowered, Danielson testified that Holm had called her "my little passion flower" and had murmured, "You're not only sexy but young." Having divulged her story, the little passion flower suddenly wilted and fell to the floor, sobbing uncontrollably. Denying . her tale as "absolute rubbish," Holm said he still loved Collins and hoped for a reconciliation...