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...enjoyed a pre-Christmas tryst at New York City's Pierre Hotel. Julian Kay (Richard Gere in American Gigolo) was born in an asylum, son of the mad Norma Desmond and Screenwriter Joe Gillis, whom she shot in the last reel of Sunset Boulevard. Julian is raised by Max von Mayerling (Erich von Stroheim), Norma's former husband and butler. After two dismal marriages, Judy Rogers (Natalie Wood in Rebel Without a Cause) joins a Haight-Ashbury commune...
...smiles around the defense table in the Providence courtroom all but told the story. Judge Corinne Grande had just deflated one of the prosecution's main hopes in the retrial of Claus von Bulow for allegedly trying to kill his now comatose wife Martha ("Sunny") von Bulow in 1979 and again in 1980. The judge had ruled that the state could not offer the jury the 1982 testimony by ex-Soap Opera Actress Alexandra Isles, who helped convict her former lover in his first trial. Isles had testified that she had threatened to leave Von Bulow unless he divorced...
...Isles dominated the first Von Bulow trial by her testimony, last week she dominated the second by her absence. The socialite left the country last win ter, purportedly to visit her mother in Ireland, and has not been seen since. Judge Grande ruled that the Rhode Island prosecutors failed to mount the sufficiently "diligent" search required before testimony from an absent witness can be used. Rhode Island State Police Detective John F. Reise told the court that he had attempted to locate Isles through New York magazine Theater Critic John Simon, with whom she is said to maintain a close...
...Friday, the judge gave the state three more days to locate Isles, and told the defense to be ready with its side of the case. The missing mistress also prompted Von Bulow's attorneys to offer their fourth request for a mistrial, based on the prosecution's opening statement that previewed Isles' expected testimony...
Above all, von Weizsacker said, "there is truly no reason for us today to participate in victory celebrations. But there is every reason for us to perceive May 8, 1945, as the end of an aberration in German history." This, said the President, bore the seeds of hope for a better future...