Word: mia
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Other things required no calibration, since the book was Mia Farrow's memoir, What Falls Away (Nan A. Talese/Doubleday; 370 pages; $25). An author as hot as Farrow doesn't go on a book tour. Barbara, Oprah and Larry date her up. She was, after all, involved in a show-biz shocker. Four and a half years ago, she discovered that Woody Allen, her lover of 12 years and the father of one of her 14 children (four natural, 10 adopted), was also the lover of her 21-year-old adopted daughter Soon-Yi. This at a time when Farrow...
...elaborate children's parties, the famous and talented who came to her parents' dinners, the ceremonial arrival of the Farrows--nine strong--at the Roman Catholic Church of the Good Shepherd, where the family had its own pew. In such a heady environment, it isn't surprising that Mia's godmother was gossip columnist Louella Parsons or that Charles Boyer lived next door. But celebrity seems to follow her. Her girlhood pet was the real Lassie's grandson. When she retreated to the ashram of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, who should turn up but all four Beatles. They sang the night...
...MIA FARROW She portrays herself as the Misunderstood Matriarch in a life-with-Woody memoir...
...ugly ordeal. On 60 Minutes last September, Jewell's mother described how investigators carted away the contents of her home. "They took Richard's guns...Then they took all of my Tupperware. I mean, every piece of Tupperware. They took 22 of my Walt Disney tapes." A neighbor, Mia Brown, says Richard sat on the stairs outside the apartment during the search "in just a T shirt and some shorts, looking so depressed and hurt. He just really looked pitiful." He couldn't find a job with the suspicions hanging over him, couldn't even walk the dog without...
Perhaps the most extraordinary point made by your story was inadvertent: there was no mention of the Securities and Exchange Commission. It is MIA when it comes to protecting fund investors concerning the issues raised by your report. All investors should care when funds stray from promised objectives and allow a 31-year-old to manage a 71-year-old's nest egg. Will it take a cataclysm of major proportions to suggest the need for more SEC enforcement and oversight of the fund industry? WILLIAM H. MOHR New York City...