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Everyone knows about miscreants like Hugh Grant and Pee Wee Herman. But who knew that JANE FONDA was arrested for drug smuggling and assaulting a policeman, AL PACINO for carrying a concealed weapon and SUZANNE SOMERS for (gasp!) writing bad checks? George Seminara did. He also knew that charges were dropped against Fonda, then 32; that Pacino, 20, was briefly incarcerated and let go; and that Somers, 24, paid the cash back and wasn't prosecuted. Seminara collects celebrity mug shots. His book on the subject, Mug Shots, will be out in June. "One day I sat down and thought...
...needs more stimulus than the Fed is giving it. Or so say many economists. Last week's tweak is "too little, too late," argues Allan Meltzer, professor of political economy at Carnegie-Mellon University. Says Irwin Kellner, chief economist of Chemical Bank: "A quarter point will help a wee bit, but it's going to take more than that to get this economy going." One signpost: house sales lately have been flat, despite a drop in mortgage rates...
...Yasser Arafat and Rabin last September. In fact, Acting Prime Minister Shimon Peres, who was formally approved as leader of the ruling Labor Party on Sunday, had moved up the transfer by a week to show his committment to peace with the Palestinians. "They really did it in the wee hours of the morning, when it was still dark, to minimize the potential uproar," reports TIME's Johanna McGeary. "At the same time, this was done six days ahead of schedule. So it signifies the seriousness of the Israeli commitment to not only go forward but to move full speed...
Shirley Jones has left her husband of 17 years, comic Marty Ingels, and he seems to be using it as a source for material: "Whenever we go out, she says, 'Think David Niven.' I say, 'O.K.' She says, 'So why's it coming out Pee-wee Herman?'" The problem of disparate comic tastes was apparently exacerbated by Jones' children Shaun, Ryan and Patrick Cassidy and stepson David Cassidy, who were unable to get happy with Ingels. The couple still plan to work together...
Fortunately, a chance vacancy in another suite provided me with a room for the year, but if the former occupant hadn't run into a wee bit of academic trouble I would have been faced with the dubious and expensive proposition of building a partition...