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...Groucho had been crackers and that she had kept him sane and happy. Celebrities who had known Marx, including George Burns and Carroll O'Connor, supported her version. Family members attacked her. As for Groucho himself, he testified, too, in a way. Jurors watched a videotape of the comic accepting a special 1974 Oscar and thanking Fleming, "who makes my life worth living and understands all my jokes...
...Hall, they held center stage, belting out lyrics for which they are not at all famous. A wistful young woman named Tracy Shayne gave her plaintive interpretation of What I Did for Love from A Chorus Line; Rhonda Coullet, helped by a regular cast member, Cass Morgan, did a comic number from Pump Boys and Dinettes; and Ruth Brisbane brought down the house with the sexy The Right Key but the Wrong Keyhole from One Mo' Time...
DIED. Georges Remi (nom de plume: Hergé), 75, Belgian artist-creator of the internationally known comic-strip chronicles of Tin tin, the perennially youthful and sparky reporter-adventurer who first appeared in a Brussels newspaper and went on to star in 23 books that have sold 80 million copies in 30 languages and enchanted three generations of children; in Brussels...
...William Richert, a novice writerdirector, strode out of Closetland with a pair of black-comic fantasias on the lust for power: Winter Kills and Success. What happened next would fulfill a paranoid's darkest hopes. With all the good grace of a Mafia don consigning a nosy reporter to cement sneakers in the East River, Hollywood offhandedly dumped Richert's films. Winter Kills, which twisted an assassination scenario into high-voltage satire, was pulled from release after a few weeks. Success, a screwball comedy on the doppelganger theme, was left to molder in its distributor's vaults...
RECOVERING. Danny Kaye, 70, globe-trotting comic entertainer and good-will ambassador for UNICEF; after two weeks of hospitalization for chest pains and irregular heartbeat led to quadruple coronary-bypass surgery; in Los Angeles...