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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Though rocker TOMMY LEE's alleged beating of his wife PAMELA was shocking--theirs had been a love unusually well documented--it may have been foretold by his stomach, which is tattooed with the word MAYHEM. Lee's injuries included a bloody broken nail and red welts on her back. She says her husband (who is not only on parole but is also up on other charges) has a history of domestic violence. He made bail but was ordered to stay away from home. She intends to prosecute him and has filed, again, for divorce...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Mar. 9, 1998 | 3/9/1998 | See Source »

...beard,' in Hollywood parlance, is a man employed by a male star to accompany him when he appears in public with a woman not his wife. Sometimes female stars use them too. A 'hunker' is somebody kept on the payroll to know baseball scores, send out for coffee and strike matches on." --Aug. 29, 1955, from a footnote to a cover story on Frank Sinatra...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 75 Years Of Miscellany | 3/9/1998 | See Source »

...only wish I could have shared it with Jessie. In those last few weeks, when she wanted so desperately to die (never with tears, never with self-pity, but just because of exhaustion), I kept trying to remind her what an extraordinary success she had had as a wife, as a mother and as an actress. I hope that it registered and that in her darkest moments she may have remembered and even believed it. HUME CRONYN New York City...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sounding Off, Talking Back | 3/9/1998 | See Source »

...there are those of us in Hollywood, Miss Bacall among them, who would rather make Current & Choice than win an Academy Award or make Men of Distinction, won't you please include her in the cast of Key Largo in Current & Choice just once, as she is my wife and I have to live with her. Miss Bacall is extremely tired of being labeled et al. HUMPHREY BOGART Beverly Hills, Calif...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sounding Off, Talking Back | 3/9/1998 | See Source »

...happy that Eleanor Steber had such a wonderful success in Richard Strauss's Die Frau ohne Schatten...I remember...exhausting rehearsals with Richard Strauss...I went to his home in Garmisch--he studied the part of the [dyer's] wife with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sounding Off, Talking Back | 3/9/1998 | See Source »

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