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...early '40s, he kept on tap a voice teacher who was a former opera singer. Later on he would turn to Metropolitan Opera soprano Dorothy Kirsten and baritone Robert Merrill for pointers on technique. "He knew they knew...how to maintain the equipment," Sinatra's longtime conductor, Vincent Falcone, told writer Will Friedwald. That stuff in the whiskey tumbler he used onstage was often tea. Booze, he knew, could batter the throat...
...this, of course, revived talk about Burton's idiosyncratic investigatory techniques, the most famous example being his assumption that by shooting at pumpkins in his backyard, he could prove that Vincent Foster was murdered. (Burton did not anticipate that the pumpkin-range episode would make him look ridiculous, some students of his behavior believe, because he failed to realize that in humans other than himself what's inside the head bears no resemblance whatsoever to what's inside a pumpkin...
...tradition of director Richard Linklater's so-ridiculous-that-you-have-to-laugh movies (Dazed and Confused, SubUrbia), The Newton Boys robs money not just from banks, but from moviegoers. Set in the bootlegging world of the 1920s, the Newton Boys (Matthew McConaughey, Vincent D'Onofrio, Ethan Hawke and Skeet Ulrich) are America's most successful bank robbers, and are portrayed as sweet, Southern-drawling teenage heartthrobs. Making a mockery out of the real event, this film persuades moviegoers to fall in love with all those chiseled faces and to forget the fact that their success was made in robbery...
Both Maureen and Steven signed a clinic consent form directing that any unused embryos be donated for research. But a month before she sued Steven for divorce, Maureen told the hospital she didn't want the embryos destroyed. Her lawyer, Vincent Stempel, points out that she had surgery to create the embryos, while her ex-husband only donated sperm. "She went through a lot of physical pain to have these eggs extracted," he says. And, he notes, they may represent her last chance of becoming a biological mother...
DIED. BETSEY CUSHING ROOSEVELT WHITNEY, 89, grande dame of society; in Manhasset, N.Y. The middle child of the three glamorous Cushing sisters (the oldest married Vincent Astor, the youngest was the legendary society figure Babe Paley), she wrote the book on marrying money. The first wife of F.D.R.'s oldest son, James Roosevelt (when mother-in-law Eleanor was away, Betsey played White House hostess), she was the widow of tycoon John Hay ("Jock") Whitney...