Word: randolph
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...recent past, she was reduced "to tears and extreme emotional turmoil." They asked that she be removed from her cell in the San Mateo County jail to a private hospital (with the tab for her room and the necessary guards to be picked up by her father, Publisher Randolph Hearst...
Cynics noted that his parents had been married only seven months. His father, Lord Randolph Churchill, was a fláneur...
...Winston's mama, Jennie Jerome, she was that peculiarly erotic species, an American. Brooklyn-born Jennie had already caught the Prince of Wales' cruising eye. As Randolph reached for political power, the Prince-and other men-reached for Jennie. Yet when it became apparent that Randolph had contracted syphilis, the prodigious Jen nie abandoned her great love (an Austrian diplomat) to take her mad hus band round the world. She outlived him by 26 love-filled years and married not one but two men as young as her son Winston. When she was dying in great pain...
Considering these biographical riches, Jennie: Lady Randolph Churchill (PBS, 9 p.m. E.S.T.) the seven-part series that starts this week on 200 PBS stations, should be a romp. Alas, this English production has been authorized by the family. Raciness is sacrificed to discretion. Lee Remick reduces Jennie to a bright, transparent coquette. There is no hint of Lady Randolph's unpredictable passions or the fatal allure that caused eminent Edwardians to lose their heads. The liveliest scenes are domestic...
...town faster than the fog, the word was out: Rolling Stone (circ. 410,000) was on to something big. Editors of the counterculture's bible were not answering the phones in their Bay Area homes. Uniformed guards were posted at the biweekly's St. Louis printing plant. Randolph Hearst ordered a reporter at his San Francisco Examiner to find out whether the magazine's rumored scoop had anything to do with his daughter Patty. Rolling Stone Founder and Publisher Jann Wenner, 29, told the reporter no and branded the talk as empty gossip...