Word: womanizers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...style, incidentally). When the second decision was handed down, Tyson stepped outside the arena and began to weep, actually to bawl, a cold kind of crying that carried for a distance. He was a primitive again. As the U.S. boxing team trooped through the airport after the trials, a woman mistakenly directed her good wishes to the alternate, Tyson. "She must mean good luck on the flight," said the superheavyweight Tyrell Biggs, a future Tyson opponent who would rue his joke...
Willie Horton was supposed to be serving time for murder in Massachusetts in April 1986 when he invaded a home in Oxon Hill, Md., raped a woman and stabbed her companion. Horton had not broken out of prison. He had walked away from it ten months earlier while on a weekend furlough, an experiment that has been a cornerstone of Governor Michael Dukakis' criminal-justice program...
Cipollone chose L&M, she explained before her death, partly because of the testimonials by celebrities in the company's ads. Said she: "I remember they used to be so glamorous. They always used to wear evening gowns." Defense lawyers sought to establish that Cipollone was an intelligent woman who made a decision to keep smoking despite plenty of signs that it was risky. As evidence, they introduced 115 articles from TIME, 47 articles from Reader's Digest and even lyrics from popular songs like the 1947 hit Smoke, Smoke, Smoke, which included the words "Puff, puff...
...colleagues on the set, however, she was an anorexic, acne-scarred prima donna who would throw tantrums over the slightest inconvenience or reject a glass of water because it was too warm. And to those who claimed to know her best, she was a vivacious and vulnerable woman who became so debilitated by insecurity and drug abuse that she could barely function without a nursemaid. When Savitch's end finally came in a freak car accident in 1983, one close friend had already finished mourning: the Jessica she had once known had died years before...
...reached the top only to be dismissed as a bimbo," Blair writes. But with film and television rights to both biographies already snapped up, Savitch is sure to be remembered as the woman who brought the dark side of Hollywood to broadcast...