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...Lucy character began as a saxophonist who bleated, a chanteuse who croaked, a hoofer who fell down. Even in the final season, when the Lucy character met her look-alike, the actress Lucille Ball, the script concluded that the "real" Lucy was the star-struck onlooker, not the star. Yet, after Ball divorced Arnaz in 1960, the Lucy character also evolved into a capable single mother, then an independent and modestly successful career woman. Off- camera, Ball was happily remarried in 1961 to a courtly, protective ex- comic, Gary Morton, and took a keen maternal interest in the acting careers...
EVERYBODY'S ALL-AMERICAN. A college star (Dennis Quaid) peaks early; his prom- queen wife (Jessica Lange) piques often; a star-struck bookworm (Timothy Hutton) peeks into their problems. Taylor Hackford's entertaining soap opera polishes the cliches until they shine like movie truths...
EVERYBODY'S ALL-AMERICAN. A college star (Dennis Quaid) peaks early; his prom- queen wife (Jessica Lange) piques often; a star-struck bookworm (Timothy Hutton) peeks into their problems. Taylor Hackford's entertaining soap opera polishes the cliches until they shine like movie truths...
Gromyko's mostly leaden prose flutters when he describes a 1959 encounter with Marilyn Monroe at a Hollywood reception. "She was considered the embodiment of womanhood in the '60s," writes Gromyko. The star-struck diplomat sounds almost breathless when he recounts that Monroe "sat at a table across from us, literally five meters away." He adds, "As I was leaving, she suddenly called out, 'Mr. Gromyko, how are you?' She said it as if we were old friends." Gromyko dwells at length on Monroe's 1962 suicide, speculating that she was murdered by U.S. Government agents because of her supposed...
...about $135 million to Boesky's wife Seema and her sister Muriel Slatkin. The sisters have not spoken in years, partly because Seema, who held 52% of the property, and Ivan refused Muriel a private table at the Polo Lounge, the hotel's celebrity watering hole. The star-struck Davis, who once owned 20th Century- Fox, says he will refurbish the 260-room hotel for an additional $40 million...