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...more varied roles, Swanson formed a production company in 1927, which numbered among its backers Joseph P. Kennedy (with whom she claimed to have had an affair), and made some of her best movies, including Sadie Thompson (1928). Her career then faded, until her triumphant 1950 comeback as Sunset Boulevard's aging actress Norma Desmond. "You used to be big," the silent-screen star is told. "I am big," intones Swanson unforgettably. "It's the pictures that got small." Married six times, enthusiastic about health foods and natural cosmetics, maker and spender of millions, she never got small...
...excited schoolchildren. Charles gallantly affirmed his fondness for barbecues, while Diana proudly announced that William boasts six teeth and, of course, a fondness for koala bears. Afterward they were whisked off to clamber up the sacred aboriginal monolith of Ayers Rock. For. a few moments, the couple savored the sunset together. But soon they had to return to earth-and a host of royal obligations...
HOSPITALIZED. Gloria Swanson, 84, legendary film star (Sunset Boulevard) who credits her longevity and ageless glamour to a diet of spring water and vegetables; for an undisclosed illness; in New York City...
...year ago this month on Sunset Boulevard, after a sleepless drug-and-liquor binge, John Belushi was injected with a "speedball," a potent mixture of heroin and cocaine. Early that afternoon the wasted comedian was dead in his hotel bed, and a Hollywood hanger-on named Cathy Smith was in Los Angeles police custody. But Smith, who had been with Belushi all night, was not charged with any crime. Two months later, the tabloid National Enquirer reportedly paid her $15,000 for an interview. The paper quoted her (inaccurately, she claims) as saying that she had given Belushi the fatal...
...their five-day cruise from Mexico, the Queen and Prince Philip will be resting up not for such ineffable California experiences as sunset over a traffic jam on the San Diego Freeway, but for a numbing schedule of dinners and plaque dedications. It is not easy being royal, but they can be expected to remain courteous and resolutely interested in the midst of celebrity crush and media uproar...