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DIED. Harriet Parsons, 76, petite hard-headed producer who made six movies for RKO between 1945 and 1955, including Clash by Night and I Remember Mama; of cancer; in Santa Monica, Calif. The daughter of powerful Gossip Columnist Louella Parsons, Harriet went from writing for fan magazines and filming shorts to producing Hollywood films, one of a handful of women to do so. Her job often required, she said, "the combined qualities of Solomon and Simon Legree...
Maura has pursued a rock-music career with some seriousness, and works full time at Rupert Murdoch's New York Post as a gossip reporter. Both girls are swaddled in red. Out front, Cornelia's mother C.Z. has arrived, dressed in black. C.Z. is a gardening columnist for the Post...
...gossipy and acid-tongued columnist in the trade press, Adam Osborne, 43, regularly charged the microcomputer industry with failing to innovate or serve consumer needs. Finally, in 1981 Osborne decided to produce his own personal computer. A year later the Osborne 1 appeared. Weighing only 24 lbs., it was packaged in a plastic case, could be tucked under an airline seat and carried a price tag of $1,795, including a valuable library of software. The erstwhile heckler had produced the first truly portable business computer...
...Arabs and Israelis. Henry Kissinger, anathema to Reagan's right-wing supporters, has been called in as a consultant by Secretary of State George Shultz. "The reason guru-grabbing has come into such vogue is that a strategy vacuum exists within the divided Reagan White House," writes conservative Columnist William Safire. He regards Reagan's National Security Adviser, William Clark, as "Living proof that still waters can run shallow." Safire's remark is living proof that when it comes to malice toward one another, top conservatives are in a class by themselves...
...real; her tragedy was that she never got to play it onscreen. From the moment she hit Hollywood in 1935, barely 22 and with a natural blond beauty, Farmer determined to play by her own rules. She would adorn no mogul's casting couch, coddle no gossip columnist. She deserted Hollywood after her first hit movie (Come and Get It, 1936) to join the Group Theater in New York City as the star of Clifford Odets' Golden Boy. Life struck back at Frances with gaudy vengefulness. Odets and his group dumped her. She was cast in forgettable...