Word: rona
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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CLASS REUNION by Rona Jaffe Delacorte; 338 pages...
Remember The Group - Mary McCarthy's novel about eight college girls and how they grew? Change Vassar to Radcliffe, the '30s to the '50s, take away the wry tone, and you have Rona Jaffe's readable reworking, Class Reunion. The four women in her sorority are archetypes...
...went to the 1978 festival to record the goings-on in all their vulgar glory. He eavesdrops on the manic deal making that transpires daily on the Carlton Hotel terrace, the pretentious black-tie screenings, the endless parade of female pulchritude for commercial purposes. Such real-life luminaries as Rona Barrett, Edy Williams and Brooke Shields pop up here and there, in most cases to make spectacles of themselves...
...prized possessions - Old World antiques and Bernard Buffet paintings. A little of this amusement goes a long way; the cumulative effect of Person to Person is depressing. It is no fun to be reminded that the spiritual father of CBS Reports and 60 Minutes was also the progenitor of Rona Barrett - Interviews, Merv Griffin and Dinah...
...unauthorized biography of the crooner, than he filed a $2 million complaint against Los Angeles Times Columnist Jody Jacobs. In an upcoming episode of Laugh-In, Ol' Blue Eyes goes after splashier revenge-by pouring a can of green paint (actually, dyed Cream of Wheat cereal) over a Rona Barrett lookalike. The victim: Actress June Gable, who plays a gossip-caster named Ms. Groana on the show. "He dumped this bucket of slime and let it shlunk all over me," said Gable. "Then he came down from the scaffold and said, 'Hey, babe, are you all right...