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Shirley urges Simpson to get out of the house to socialize and play golf. He is doing a little of both, but not much. The Riviera Country Club has informally told him he is not welcome there; he is occasionally seen at a public course. But he mostly spends his time brooding about his legal problems. Not only is there the civil trial, but also Nicole's parents are seeking custody of Simpson's children Sydney and Justin, who are living with the Browns. Simpson has often been seen near their home when he is not scheduled for a visit...
DIED. DAVID MCCAMPBELL, 86, Medal of Honor naval aviation ace and commander famous for shooting down 34 Japanese planes during World War II; in Riviera Beach, Florida. His Air Group 15 shot down hundreds more...
...that a pirate ship in the Mediterranean waters near the Cannes Film Festival? No, it was the PRIVATE ship. The word screams in huge red letters on the starboard side of an ocean-liner-size vessel off the Riviera beach. A Swedish porno company is providing a "Floating Erotic Expo '96"--replete with "body painting on the hour" and "go-go dancers on the half-hour"--to festival participants 18 and older. It's a classic coals-to-Newcastle scheme, since visitors to the world's largest moviefest can get all the virtual sex they'd want on the giant...
...festival has always had a healthy sense of its mission--still does, as indicated by three billboards promoting the doomsday summer thriller Independence Day. NO WARNING, announces the first sign; NO NEGOTIATIONS, reads the second, which shows an alien spaceship hovering over the Riviera; finally, as the spaceship obliterates all sunlight, the legend says, NO CANNES. You have to admire a festival that can imagine no worse catastrophe than its own disappearance...
Spike Lee and Mike Leigh, Gong Li and Jennifer Jason Leigh were all on the Riviera to peddle their films at dozens of press conferences and at luncheon interviews. Gong Li fared better at a posh dinner for her film Temptress Moon; her tablemate was not some grubby journalist but the genial dauphin of nearby Monaco. It was the first time in nine years that Grace Kelly's son had visited the festival, lured by Temptress Moon's elegant producer Hsu Feng, who thus provided a new answer to the old question: How do you get Prince Albert into Cannes...