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...Ambrosio chief Roberto Calvi; in Rome. Calvi, known as "God's banker" because of his close ties with the Vatican, traveled to London when his bank was near collapse and was found hanging under Blackfriars Bridge in London, his pockets stuffed with bricks, rocks, a false passport and several thousand dollars in cash. A London coroner originally ruled the death a suicide, but in 2003, Italian prosecutors issued a report concluding that Calvi had been murdered by the Mafia...
Died. Ruth Hussey, 93, onetime model best known for her Oscar-nominated role as the wisecracking photographer sent with reporter Jimmy Stewart to cover the high-society wedding of Katharine Hepburn in The Philadelphia Story; in Thousand Oaks, Calif. Hired by MGM in 1937, reportedly as a threat to keep stars Myrna Loy and Norma Shearer in line, she appeared in more than 40 films, including Northwest Passage, opposite Spencer Tracy, and as athlete Jordan Baker in the 1949 remake of The Great Gatsby...
...Welles lived until 1985. In that time, he lived to make such films as “F for Fake” and to provide the voice of Unicron in “Transformers: The Movie.” Even Welles didn’t bat a thousand...
...play takes place in Dennis’ studio apartment where Warren, having been kicked out of (and having stolen fifteen thousand dollars from) his father’s house, arrives, needy and pathetic. Dennis has assembled a life for himself; he is a successful drug dealer; he has an apartment and a girlfriend; and he lords his relative success over Warren, constantly manipulating and abusing his friend. Although these two actors were talking and joking with each other only moments before taking the stage, once on it, they build up a believable degree of tension between their characters
...popular vote since the President’s father ran 17 years ago. Americans face a wealth of information, and a poverty of attention. The average home has 70 TV channels; there is a 75 percent drop in TV ad retention; during the campaign, the average individaul received a thousand election-related messages a week...