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Gorbachev later held separate meetings with intellectual and cultural leaders (including such luminaries as former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, Writer Norman Mailer and Composer Yoko Ono), media moguls and business executives. At times during these sessions, he seemed almost Reaganesque in his use of folksy anecdotes to make his points. He began his meeting with the intellectuals, for example, by reading a letter from an American teenager calling on the two leaders "to build a world of responsibility...
Over there was Norman Mailer chatting with Yoko Ono. Through the lobby strode Gregory Peck wearing a name card. Gregory Peck with a name card? Where are we? Claudia Cardinale was a stunning sight in a tailored black-and-white-striped suit. Peter Ustinov moved grandly about, with all the bearing and intonation of one of his best-known characters, Inspector Hercule Poirot. "I can't believe it," said an awed American tourist as she gawked around the lobby of the Kosmos Hotel. "This could be Hollywood." Or, the way things are these days, it could be Moscow...
...reception Gorbachev shook hands with Yoko Ono and praised the contributions she and her late husband John Lennon had made to the peace movement. Mailer quipped that he had "cemented a peace pact" over dinner with Novelist Gore Vidal, with whom he has frequently feuded. Ustinov complained that a reporter from Radio Luxembourg woke him at 2 a.m. to ask what Gorbachev was going to say in a speech later that day. Everyone feasted on mounds of fresh strawberries -- a delicacy virtually unheard of in midwinter Moscow...
...more fitting way to remember Lennon, many said, is the park recently built in Central Park in his memory. The park, named Strawberry Fields, was built with money contributed by Lennon's widow, Yoko Ono...
...originally intended as a gift for his wife's 50th birthday, but John Lennon never got to begin work on a collection of Yoko Ono songs recorded by other artists. The idea, however, lived on, and with a little help from her friends, Ono, 51, finally finished the album. Every Man Has a Woman features twelve songs performed by such divergent talents as Harry Nilsson, Elvis Costello, Eddie Money, Rosanne Cash, Roberta Flack and a young lad more or less new to the business, Sean Ono Lennon, 8, who sings It's Alright. Next Tuesday the musicians will...