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...fourth wife, she sailed into their English-style East 71st Street Manhattan manse and transformed the 16 rooms (plus eight water loos) into a plush Napoleonic empire. Now she has struck a Wellington of her own. Lerner, she says, spends little precious time at home, and when the millionaire lyricist cut off all her charge accounts around town, his lady finally said no fair. As a counterploy she locked him out on the street where he lives, then sued for separate maintenance. But she still loves him; so of course, said a source, no divorce...
Divorced. Sammy Cahn, 50, kingpin Hollywood lyricist, author of more than a thousand songs (Three Coins in the Fountain, Love and Marriage), who last week picked up his fourth Academy Award for Call Me Irresponsible, sung by Jackie Gleason in Papa's Delicate Condition; by Gloria Delson Cahn, 37, onetime Goldwyn girl; on grounds of mental cruelty (she said he left her alone at parties); after 18 years of marriage, two children; in Los Angeles...
...With the fine flush of success, Barbra has hastily assembled some of the accouterments of the gracious life, but is plainly still out of phase with it. She has rented a penthouse duplex on Central Park West that was once the home of Lorenz Hart dur ing the great lyricist's last years. They have had the place about seven months, and it is still substantially empty, but Barbra is filling it with her own brand of antiques, the pursuit of which is her only hobby. She has an old dentist's cabinet for her ribbons and lace...
...including the fact that every so often he goes on a crash diet; U.S. Foreign Service dispatches to Washington frequently start: "This being the diet season, it is useless ..." A man full of energy and diffuse talents, Sihanouk has been known at various times as a playboy, saxophonist, composer, lyricist, painter, sportsman, linguist, scenarist, cinematographer, Asian method actor and rice-bowl philosopher...
...What does it take to get Ira to go back to work?" asked Director Billy Wilder four months ago. "To be asked by someone he likes," replied the wife of Ira Gershwin, 67. So Billy asked, and Lyricist Gershwin went back to work for the first time in nine years. Told he could team with anyone on Wilder's upcoming Kiss Me, Stupid, Ira replied that the music would be by his brother...