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Princess Diana's brother has written to the trustees of her memorial fund, asking them to wind up the charity because he believes it is degrading Diana's name, the Times of London reports. Earl Spencer "fears the fund is never going to stop, and the idea of it going on and on, making money out of the princess's name, is certainly not what she would have wanted," the Times quoted an unnamed Spencer aide as saying. The newspaper reported that Spencer has asked the nine trustees to fix a date to stop taking donations for the fund...
...festival's lineup features Maceo Parker,the John Spencer Blues Explosion, ska-punk bandFishbone and the Five Fingers of Funk.Dissatisfied with impressive assemblage of talentand a crowd of over 10,000, many UPenn studentshave complained that these bands lack the namerecognition of previous Spring Fling headliners...
...distinctly sleazy case in point is The Rich Man's Table (Knopf; 273 pages; $23), an expertly written novel by Scott Spencer, author of Endless Love, that rips off the life of Bob Dylan. Most readers will recall that Dylan was a scraggly haired harmonica player with an edgy voice and an edgy mind, a Jewish kid from Minnesota who changed his name from, let's see, Zimmerman? And later converted to Christianity for a few years. The character who dominates Spencer's novel was born Stuart Kramer, transformed himself as "Luke Fairchild," and came from "the Midwest," not specifically...
...what, except that the author has somewhat lazily not bothered to invent his own central figure? But the burden of the novel is that Luke Fairchild is a monster of charm and talent, adulated for the purity of his counterculture protest. And, as Spencer tells it, he abandons his pregnant girlfriend Esther Rothschild when he hits the big time, and then meanly refuses to acknowledge the resulting child Billy as his own, or to peel off any loot for child support. The story is told by Billy, who, as a teenager and then as an adult, skulks about the edges...
...course, the movies started driving toward all this long before the Clintons came along. In Frank Capra's 1948 State of the Union, Spencer Tracy plays a straight-talking businessman having an affair with Angela Lansbury. A newspaper magnate and political kingmaker, Lansbury decides to push Tracy into a presidential run. That means getting his estranged wife, played by Katharine Hepburn, to agree to act the contented spouse on the campaign trail...