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When Rose Cipollone was an impressionable 1940s teenager, a smoldering cigarette in the hand of a glamorous starlet seemed to sum up sophistication. Before she died of lung cancer in 1984, some 15,000 packs later, Cipollone and her husband filed suit against three cigarette manufacturers, claiming that intense advertising and industry health claims had drawn her into a deadly | nicotine habit. Last week the Supreme Court agreed to hear the case. However the high court rules, the result will deeply affect the enormous tobacco industry...
...LOVE. When Errol Flynn died in 1959, he was traveling with starlet Beverly Aadland, who had been his mistress since she was 15. This chillingly believable Broadway play has as its sole character Beverly's mother Florence (unforgettably played by Tracey Ullman), a ferocious stage mama who would stop at nothing...
...reared their daughters. Although Frances was the inspiration for Norman's acerbic TV character Maude ("All of Norman's work is autobiographical -- Archie Bunker was based on his father"), the show- business community was a peculiar culture that reduced Frances, who did not want to be either a starlet or a producer, to an atrophying, bitterly depressed Hollywood wife. After much therapy, she chose to end her 28-year marriage. (Norman Lear, 66, has since married a psychotherapist, with whom...
Suddenly, then, Thailand has been thrown into the spotlight like a freshly discovered starlet. Thai restaurants have become the trendy's choice from Kansas City to Tokyo, and the newly crowned Miss Universe is a Thai (though a resident of what Thais call their 74th province, California). SPORTS ILLUSTRATED posed this year's splashy swimsuit issue on Thailand's beaches, and a new Orient Express is scheduled to start its luxury runs from Bangkok to Singapore in less than two years. As fast as Thailand has come to Hollywood (there are scores of Thai restaurants on Melrose Avenue alone), Hollywood...
...TYPE? are almost as common along the Quayle trail as those reading CHICKEN HAWK. His wife Marilyn, a lifelong Quayle handler, told reporters her husband tries to reread Plato's Republic once a year. She sounded like one of the oldtime MGM publicity men who, whenever a starlet got into trouble, churned out a press release announcing her enrollment in correspondence courses at the Sorbonne. Ridicule is as contagious in politics as it is in show business: even a few Bush aides privately call Quayle the blond bombshell. He needs a chance to show some gravitas. Quayle is not exaggerating...