Word: rumors
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...BROWN a.k.a. Pancake a.k.a. Stella Marie Thompson into his rented BMW. They strike a deal that entails his giving her, among other things, $45. At about 1:45 a.m. the local constabulary interrupts. "I did something completely insane," says Grant later. Around the world, people agree. Day's Big Rumor: Brown...
...almost as popular as oxygen, people are baffled as to how he could have strayed from a lover with as many low-cut dresses as Estee Lauder spokesperson ELIZABETH HURLEY. The London Sun papers Sunset with posters offering $150,000 for an exclusive with Brown. Day's Big Rumor: Fox is panicking about prospects for Grant's first big-budget movie, Nine Months, out this month...
...THREE: Hurley appears publicly in a chin-up mint green suit, and later releases a statement saying she's "bewildered and saddened." Consensus in Hollywood: Grant's career is far from over. "He can work for me anytime," says Miramax chairman Harvey Weinstein. Day's Big Rumor: Hurley will be forced to choose between Lauder and Grant...
...FOUR: Grant and Hurley, reunited at an English country house, lunch in range of telephoto lenses. Titillating reports circulate of a double bed being delivered. Madame Tussaud's says it will not drop plans for creating a wax effigy of Grant. Day's Big Rumor: No one will remember any of this next week...
...Cuba, Vesco was a creature of legendary largesse, and the news of el americano's arrest whipped through the rumor mills. When he settled on the island in 1982, Vesco, who had been known to fire his American employees simply for arriving late for work, was so incensed at the tardiness of the bodyguards assigned to him by the government that he gave all of them Rolexes to keep accurate time. Last week the only security guard at his empty white-washed house at 2114 204th Street, in Havana's elegant Atabey suburb, turned journalists away, saying, "If you want...