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Also waiting, behind a steel blast fence not far from the plane, were two FBI sharpshooters armed with .308 Norma Magnum rifles with telescopic sights. Their instructions: "If you get an opportunity for a clean shot, take it." Two other FBI agents approached Obergfell on the runway and tried to persuade him to give himself up. A priest offered to have the Catholic Church buy him a ticket to Italy. Obergfell grew tense, still clutching the girl and waiting for the 707 to taxi to where he stood. "Get that goddamned plane out here!" he shouted...
...Rome, a city that takes its singing seriously, the uproar was reminiscent of the time Maria Callas failed to complete a performance of Bellini's Norma. This time it was Aretha Franklin, who had been touring the country while the Italians hailed her as La Regina del Soul. After fainting at the end of a performance, Aretha canceled her next day's show, a move that produced outraged howls and legal action from Promoter Ezio Radaelli, who had paid her $65,000 in advance. Aretha responded by booking a flight to Paris. But she was picked...
...easy to see that Hollywood treated writers (male and female) as little more than unfortunate necessities. Often, the most powerful women in the movie business are those actresses who married studio executives. Such sexual politics did wonders for the careers of several little or no-talent stars: Norma Talmadge, wife of the president of United Artists back in the silent era; Norma Shearer, who married Irving Thalberg when he was head of production at Metro; and of course Ali McGraw, who is Mrs. Paramount when Paramount is one of the few Hollywood studios in the black...
...played under such conductors as Pierre Monteux, Sir Thomas Beecham and Serge Koussevitzky. She retired in 1931, married Rockefeller in 1951 and became a generous patroness of music. Besides establishing the Martha Baird Rockefeller Fund for Music to aid young musicians, she backed the recent Metropolitan Opera productions of Norma and Fidelio and the New York City Opera's Rigoletto...
...Norma Shearer had seen him lounging, tan and beautiful, at poolside at the Beverly Hills Hotel. She decided that he was just the chap to play her late husband, MGMogul Irving Thalberg, in the movie Man of a Thousand Faces. As it turned out, Actor Evans had one face: immobile. He also played Ava Gardner's bullfighter in The Sun Also Rises. It was bad enough that Papa Hemingway did not want him in the film. Neither did Tyrone Power. Or Errol Flynn. Even Mel Ferrer turned thumbs down. "They resented the fact," says Evans with acuity, "that a pants...