Word: palming
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...DIED. Marian Marsh, 93, starlet of 1930s Hollywood who, in her short-lived career, won acclaim for playing innocents-memorably the milkmaid turned diva Trilby in Svengali (tag line: "All Paris desired her but Svengali owned her!"), opposite John Barrymore; in Palm Desert, California...
DIED. Marian Marsh, 93, starlet of 1930s Hollywood who, in her short-lived career--she retired in 1942 at age 29--won acclaim for playing innocents, memorably the milkmaid turned diva Trilby in Svengali (tagline: "All Paris desired her, but Svengali owned her!"), opposite John Barrymore; in Palm Desert, Calif...
DIED. Sid Davis, 90, educational filmmaker of the 1950s and '60s whose dark, cautionary tales terrified baby boomers; in Palm Desert, Calif. A onetime stand-in for John Wayne, Davis made nearly 200 gems, now considered high camp, detailing the perils of marijuana smoking (The Terrible Truth) and sex (Girls, Beware...
Also in Medicis' corner: plans for a Medicis-sponsored reality-TV show, The Hottest Mom in America. "It's like two 900-lb. gorillas that once each had a monopoly, slugging it out for each other's market share," says Dr. Kenneth Beer, a cosmetic dermatologist in Palm Beach, Fla., who runs a summer boot camp in Colorado that trains physicians on the latest aesthetic techniques. "It's an interesting time in the beauty business...
McGeoch says the consortium, made up of an Australian nursery, Sydney's Botanic Gardens Trust and the Queensland, Australia, Forestry Department, wants the Wollemi to avoid the fate of Australia's foxtail palm, which was decimated in the wild after its location became known and poachers took seeds and plants to market without regard for research or preservation...