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...year, although he has not decided whether he will review parts of the probe concluded by his predecessor, Robert Fiske. Meanwhile, the Resolution Trust Corporation requested that a federal court enforce subpoenas for documents relating to Arkansas Governor Jim Guy Tucker, a Democrat and heavy borrower from the misbegotten Madison Guaranty S&L for his political campaigns in the early 1980s...
Played out in public, her extravagant affairs -- with actors, musicians and athletes -- added to the legend. But her legacy is the voice. Penetrating, with a wide, natural vibrato, it had an urgency of emotion that touched everyone, from the misbegotten of the meanest quartier to the most refined boulevardiers. Jean Cocteau, who died within hours of Piaf, called her a genius: "There has never been another like her . . . and there never will be." He compared her to a nightingale, but the impresario who discovered Edith Giovanna Gassion at 19, singing on the corner of a Paris avenue, had bestowed...
...trying to think. Lily Tomlin. There's no one big enough. I was a great fan of a wonderful actress who died recently. She did Moon for the Misbegotten; she did quite a lot of Eugene O'Neill on Broadway. Colleen Dewhurst...
...York's big-time legitimate theater, Cohn's hegemony was almost complete, his power inescapable. During a couple of early-'80s seasons, Cohn was involved in the Broadway productions of "Nine," Noises Off, The Real Thing, Sunday in the Park with George and A Moon for the Misbegotten, among others...
...misbegotten week for the Clintons, travel arrangements-wise: Air Force One sat at Los Angeles International Airport for nearly an hour, idling and tying up two runways, while Cristophe, a Beverly Hills stylist whose going rate is $200 a head, gave President Clinton an on-board haircut...