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...Pinkerton operative in his 20s. In 1921 he shadowed Comedian Fatty Arbuckle, implicated in the death of a starlet, and noted: "His eyes were the eyes of a man who expected to be regarded as a monster ... I made my gaze as contemptuous as I could." It could have been the stuff of hard-boiled detective literature; instead it was the stuff of hard-boiled detective life: the life lived by Dashiell Hammett, creator of The Thin Man and The Maltese Falcon. A voracious reader of Henry James, before he switched to the school of hard knocks, Hammett wrote four...
DIED. Carolyn Jones, 50, sultry, sinuous actress who played the ghoulamorous Morticia on television's The Addams Family; of cancer; in Beverly Hills. A promising starlet whose supporting performance as a love-starved beatnik in The Bachelor Party (1957) was nominated for an Oscar, Jones left the movies in 1964 to star for two years in the TV sitcom based on Charles Addams' offbeat New Yorker cartoons...
...waited a lifetime, more than 30 years, to hear those three words, 'Mrs. Howard Hughes.' " And the three words were worth perhaps eight figures to Terry Moore, 54, actress (Peyton Place, Come Back Little Sheba) and Korean War pinup girl. Back when she was a starlet in 1949, Moore maintains, she and Billionaire Hughes, then 43, were secretly married on a sailing trip to Mexico and were never legally divorced, even though he remarried at least once and she has since married and divorced three other men. After Hughes' death in 1976, Moore went public with...
Some of the malaise could be attributed to birth pains of the Palais des Festivals, a new brutalist slab that opened its doors after five years of construction delays. Unlike the older, airier Palais, the new building invited nothing but business, despite the exertions of Veteran Starlet Edy Williams, who would display herself whether anyone asked...
...fateful day, though, the saga crossed the line into soap opera. As the letters were sent, rumors leaked out through the Daily Princeloman that the admissions committee was so deadlocked over the starlet's application that it had finally abdicated responsibility for the choice. Instead, James Wickenden, dean of admissions gave himself a few more hours. He flew to Florida, where Brooke was staying, bearing two possible fates--one letter of acceptance and one of rejection...