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...last week. It developed that two giant Sunday papers had been involved in questionable Peeping Tom activities while competing for salacious muck. The News of the World (circ. 6,000,000) revealed that one of its photographers had taken sneak pictures of Lord Lambton romping in bed with Prostitute Norma Levy and another doxy. NOW's rival, the Sunday People (circ. 4,600,000) admitted paying for film and tapes of Norma's upper-crust bedroom festivities...
Both papers dealt with Norma's husband and pimp, Colin Levy, who is also wanted for questioning about narcotics offenses. In early May he learned that police evidence implicated him in vice activities. Desperate for getaway money, Levy offered to sell NOW movies and tapes starring Lambton and the girls. The paper was not equipped to process movie film, and it said that taped evidence was not sufficient. So it gave Levy an infrared still camera and a tape recorder and told him to come up with new documentation to support his story. Contrary to the paper...
...intention of prosecuting him, but he began worrying about his possible ruin. Before he died, Mills wrote half a dozen suicide notes. One apologized to his constituents for not having served them better. Another was to his 16-year-old son (the younger of two from his marriage to Norma Lea Nichols Mills), warning him always to be honest...
Despite his tiffs with Maria Callas (he fired her in 1959, re-engaged her in 1965 for two Toscas), Bing regards her Met debut in 1956 in Norma as "the most exciting of all such in my time at the Metropolitan." Bing also recalls Callas' husband and manager Battista Meneghini, who insisted on being paid in cash before the curtain rose every night. Callas' fee then was $1,000. "Toward the end," recalled Bing, "I had him paid in five-dollar bills, to make a wad uncomfortably large for him to carry...
...canto opera puts everyone to the test, including the audience. Norma, for example, is one of those static abstracts that-like most neo-Roman architecture-more often command respect than love. That Sutherland, Capobianco and Designer José Verona could infuse it with any passion at all was testimony to the peculiar alchemy of opera when it is defying both the gods and the arts...