Word: rumors
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...coming from, but it has also relieved him of the need to make new music vital enough to seize and hold the attention of contemporary listeners. Perhaps that is why, 30 years after Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band changed the face of rock, the wild rumor that once rippled throughout the world appears at last to have come true: creatively speaking, Paul is dead...
...years later, Scher married Dillon's widow Patricia and raised Dillon's son and daughter as his own. The family moved to North Carolina, leaving Dillon's grave to be tended by his father Lawrence, a former mayor of Montrose. But questions remained. There had always been rumors that Scher and Patricia had been in the middle of a torrid love affair before her husband died--a rumor they denied repeatedly. Dillon's father, for one, always wondered about the autopsy report and never believed the death was an accident. Says Bonnie Mead, who was Martin Dillon's secretary...
...more sordid level, this race has all of the elements that make New York politics such an attractive subject for Hollywood productions: sex, corruption, racial and ethnic conflict, and vicious politicking. This past summer, a national magazine published rumors of an extra-marital affair between Giuliani and a top aide. The story received wide coverage in both the local New York and national press. But despite the fact that the Mayor's wife has been conspicuously absent from his campaign events, the rumor seems to have fizzled as quickly as it flared...
...swiftly to mind--one certainly can't accuse her of taking herself too seriously or being coy. In her new book, Jen-X (for which she was reportedly paid more than $1 million), McCarthy confesses with unstarlike candor that she wet her bed until she was seven, spread a rumor that a girl at her school was a lesbian and peed in a guy's bed after a drunken date. Also that her breasts are fake and she dropped out of college after a petty theft. And, scariest of all, that she had crushes on Mr. Rogers and Erik Estrada...
...system than as a director, opened his musical version of Dance of the Vampires in Vienna last week. But in America a drama of a different sort unfolded after it emerged that Polanski's lawyer had had yet another meeting with the Los Angeles D.A.'s office, sparking a rumor that he was cutting a deal to allow the director of Chinatown to return to America. The 20-year-old warrant issued for Polanski's arrest is still in effect. He fled to Paris, fearing he would have to serve serious time for having sex with a 13-year...