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...Sir George Martin didn't think much of the Beatles when he first heard their demo tape, the man now known as "The Fifth Beatle" told a packed Sanders Theatre crowd last night...
...that has changed. The Rays added five bathrooms, four fireplaces, a new roof, fresh paint and hundreds of yards of window dressing. Some of the seven rooms are named after former inhabitants: Major Pierce, Bonnie Victoria, Lady Melodie and Sir Christopher...
...book that started creeping up the best-seller list, and as it crept higher, my accommodations got nicer and nicer until I was staying in stately hotels with real art on the walls and towels as big as blankets and where the answer to every question is, "Yes, sir. My pleasure, sir. Right away, sir." Black Lincolns waited at the curb, maitre d's whisked me to secluded corners, and I never saw a bill. Everything was handled quietly, out of sight. I went around for a week with $40 in my pocket, unspent...
DIED. PAULA YATES, 41, fizzy British TV personality, former wife of singer Sir Bob Geldof and companion of Australian rock star Michael Hutchence before his death; of undetermined causes; in London. Described by a friend as "a Holly Golightly who swore," she was on the cusp of a comeback after three years of depression, drinking and drug abuse following Hutchence's death...
Patrons of the Estoril Casino near Lisbon, Portugal, were left stranded after SIR ELTON JOHN disappeared just half an hour before a scheduled concert last week. "As far as I know, he said there was too much smoke," said a casino spokeswoman. "Then he said he was going out for some air, and we never saw him again." John apparently hopped in a limo, boarded his private jet and took off, leaving an audience that had paid more than $200 a ticket more than a bit peeved. "We have tried to get hold of him and his agent to give...