Word: suits
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...different Dick Lugar was on display. Here was Richard Green Lugar--Eagle Scout, Rhodes Scholar, jogger, farmer, grandfather--and Republican sex symbol. When the four-term Indiana Senator strode into a cocktail party at the National Federation of Republican Women conference wearing a broad smile and a blue suit, a hundred ladies were all atwitter. A Colorado woman in sequined denim sighed, "He's such a sweetheart!" A gray-haired matron from Florida had a twinkle in her bifocals: "He's even better-looking in person than he is on TV!" A lady with a WOMEN FOR GRAMM button elbowed...
...Hope to the long list of celebrities who are being sued by ex-employees. Jeffrey Branum, who was Hope's butler for two weeks last year (not long enough, apparently, to pen a lucrative tell-all), has filed a wrongful-termination suit. Branum claims the comedian fired him because Branum refused to shave his beard off. "The Hopes have no comment," says their allegedly bearded spokesman...
...just opened at California's La Jolla Playhouse for a six-week engagement, and will be followed--if the good Lord is rather less capricious than Newman portrays him in Faust--by a Broadway run, perhaps even as early as the late fall. The theatrical form seems to suit him perfectly, both by training (he has released 17 film sound-track albums) and by birth (his uncles Alfred and Lionel were two respected musical figures of the Hollywood-studio Golden Age). Newman remains braced by anticipation, but wary. "I believe," he comments, "I'm too young to handle success...
...SUIT SETTLED. By ART BUCHWALD, 69, and Paramount Pictures; for $825,000; after a protracted court battle; in Los Angeles. Satirist Buchwald and producer Alain Bernheim initially won their suit, which charged that the studio's Coming to America was based on a Buchwald scenario, after a 1992 trial made famous by Paramount's claim that the Eddie Murphy hit lost money...
That night, a man clad in a business suit offered Manuel a cup of coffee that he had bought from Store 24. The man then visited the nearby ATM machine and handed Manuel three $100 dollar bills and another $100 in fifties and twenties...