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...death has shocked the Yale community into action, campus observers say. In response to many questions about the dangers of chemical abuse, the health educator and substance abuse counselor began sponsoring forums on alcohol, says Dr. Robert L. Arnstein, a psychiatrist who heads Yale's mental health services. "Everyone was upset over the death, but I suspect there is still some drinking," Arnstein says...
...that Brimberry's blue-chip life-style was financed with money looted from Stix's clients. Though no indictments have yet been handed up, an affidavit filed in federal court indicates that Brimberry told an Internal Revenue Service agent that he, Massa and Stix President Frederic A. Arnstein Jr. withdrew as much as $100,000 at a time from client accounts and funneled it into shadow accounts. Brimberry then reportedly forged records to cover the withdrawals, removed stock certificates from genuine accounts and forwarded them to banks to serve as collateral for further loans to the bogus accounts...
...plot, which matters least of all, has to do with Fanny Brice's later years after her separation from Nicky Arnstein, who did her so bad in the original. Omar Sharif, forever limpid, shows up again as the ne'er-do-well gambler who tries to tempt Fanny away from Billy, but she rejects him. The ending is an occasion for a few tears and a little heartbreak; we well know from all the funny ladies of movie history that happiness does not come with success. Only producers might think otherwise, and they keep it to themselves...
...five-page suicide note, Arnstein backed up her boss's claims. "I don't suppose it matters that I say it," she wrote, "but Hugh M. Hefner is -though few will ever realize it-a staunchly upright, rigorously moral man and I know him well and he has never been involved in the criminal activity which is being attributed to him now." Though the motive for her suicide remained open to speculation, she had tried to kill herself in a similar way twice before, and Hefner described her as an "already emotionally troubled young woman" even before...
Adding to her difficulties may have been a fact that the federal investigators acknowledge: last December they told Arnstein that they had information that a "contract" had been taken out on her life. Hefner heatedly charged that no such contract ever existed, and that federal officials had been using invented "threats" to coerce testimony from Arnstein about Hefner's own drug...