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Until the artist's death last year, after gallbladder surgery, the extent of his hoard had largely been a secret. As compulsive consumers go, he was inconspicuous. An old pal, Collector Suzie Frankfurt, once noticed a slight bulge under his shirt at a Studio 54 bash: it was a dazzling emerald necklace. Yet Warhol's opulent town house on Manhattan's Upper East Side was so cluttered with the fruits of his shopping binges that only two or three rooms were habitable. Picassos were stuffed in closets. Jewels were squirreled away in the canopy of his antique four-poster...
Arsinoe (Eliza Rosenbluth) Celimene's back-stabbing pal...
Judis, an editor at the leftward newsmagazine In These Times, fosters this and like assessments without endorsing them. He is more definite in his conclusion: since conservatism triumphed with the election of his pal Ronald Reagan, Buckley has lost his competitive urge. The last lap of the 20th century may provide a new liberal challenger, but until then we are left with a small irony. Reagan, the former actor, entered the White House at about the same time that Buckley, the political activist, began changing into an entertainer...
...November elections while Meese sits in the Justice Department offering a fat target for Democratic attacks. Reagan, unmoved by the accounts of the resigned Justice officials, bellowed a loud no when asked last week whether Meese should resign. But not even Reagan may be able to stand by his pal when later this spring Independent Counsel James McKay issues what will be at best a highly critical report on Meese's unethical conduct...
...most improbable plot threads from Hollywood's blackest comedy thriller of the Camelot era unravel in real life: deja vu of McCarthyism, prophecy of the Kennedy assassination. The film's star, a Kennedy pal, withdraws this daft, dark masterpiece from theatrical circulation, then keeps it hidden for a quarter-century...