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Meanwhile, Clarisse's husband is enduring an emotionless affair with a vapid starlet, while the sensual diva leads on a young gigolo who ultimately kills himself over his love for her. The subplots enthrall, but all fade away as Clarisse's and Julien's love reaches its promising resolution...
Still, she could probably use a windfall from the lawsuit. Verola lives like a movie starlet (she owns both a Corvette sports car and a Lincoln Continental), but not necessarily on a starlet's income. An E.F. Hutton executive was quoted as saying that she now has just eleven accounts and that her income at the brokerage last year did not reach the minimum wage. As for the brokerage house's opinion of Verola's asset disclosure, everybody is listening but so far Hutton is not talking...
...onetime movie starlet, Jiang beguiled Mao sufficiently to become his fourth wife and, from 1966 to 1976, the remorseless doyenne of the Cultural Revolution. During that purge, the Gang of Four (Jiang; Zhang; Wang Hongwen, 48, now serving a life sentence; and Yao Jiang in court Wenyuan, 51, serving 20 years) was responsible for some 35,000 deaths. They persecuted former Head of State Liu Shaoqi and vilified China's current leader, Deng Xiaoping, 78. Following the group's 1976 arrest one month after Mao's death, Jiang was reviled as a "white-boned demon," a perfidious...
...also during the 1930s that debutantes began making larky plunges into show business. Between her debut and her marriage in 1947, Cornelia's mother was briefly a Ziegfeld Girl and a Hollywood starlet with a studio contract. In New York City, cafe society was paying to hear debs sing at the Waldorf-Astoria and Plaza hotels, as well as at a West Side nightclub called La Place Pigalle...
There was a curious pastiche of a show at Constitution Hall, almost as confused as the war. Jimmy Stewart read a letter from the fatherless son of a Viet Nam casualty, Carol Lawrence recited The Story of the Battle Hymn of the Republic, and erstwhile Starlet Chris Noel recreated the Armed Forces Radio show she had broadcast to U.S. servicemen in Indochina during the 1960s. During intermission, retired General William Westmoreland, commander of U.S. forces in Viet Nam from 1964 to 1968, signed autographs. The hardest working star was Wayne Newton, who flew in from Las Vegas and performed gratis...