Word: spencers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Ashman. For the stage, they created Little Shop of Horrors. After Ashman died of AIDS in 1991, Menken tried various collaborators. WEIRD ROMANCE, which opened off-Broadway last week, shows how much he misses Ashman's storytelling. The two one-acts (book by Alan Brennert and lyrics by David Spencer) blend zippy tunes with cliche science fiction. A witty, upbeat song recalls how a boy fell in love with lab testing, and Ellen Greene sings gorgeous ballads. But what is this piffle about evil doctors and clones, cross-species romance and reincarnation by hologram...
...best of circumstances, even when her publisher has set it up to publicize the paperback release of her best-selling autobiography, Me: Stories of My Life. It is going to be awfully hard to ask what she was thinking of carrying on a 27-year affair with the married Spencer Tracy if she keeps her back turned to me the whole time. Apologies are definitely in order...
...being an "absolute pig." He tried everything to please her, went so far as to change his name so that she wouldn't be known as Kate Smith. "Isn't that the way it is?" She shrugs. "Luddy loved me and would do anything for me. I loved Spencer and would do anything for him. So often these things are unequal...
...full of rectitude could fall in love with a married man, she says, "You don't pick who you fall in love with. There are so few people to love. It's hard for one adult to even like another. Almost impossible." No argument there. But what about Spencer Tracy's wife Louise, home with their deaf child. "We never lived together. He stayed in one house on George Cukor's estate, and I stayed in another nearby." Does that nicety of real estate explain why many members of the press came to romanticize her 27-year affair with Tracy...
...that the Princess of Wales tolerated the cooperation of several intimates and friends with Morton's project. This is virtually unheard of. Anyone with a real royal connection never speaks to reporters, simply because doing so means instant and permanent ostracism at court. But Diana's late father Earl Spencer, always appealingly proud of his little girl and avid for personal attention, contributed dozens of unpublished pictures. Her brother and a sister apparently spoke to Morton, as did an ex- roommate, Carolyn Bartholomew, and a couple of her buddies. Buckingham Palace at once snapped that the princess...