The Republican from Springfield, Massachusetts (2024)

August 26, 1990

Publication:

The Republicani

Location:

Springfield, Massachusetts

Issue Date:

Sunday, August 26, 1990

Page:

57

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A 0 Personality parade Want the facts? Opinion? Truth? Write Waiter Scott Box 5573 Beverly Hills Calif 90210 or phone (2131 4727469 ull name will be used unless otherwise requested Volume of mail makes personal replies impossible QI know not very credible but a member of the faculty here tells me that Humphrey Bogart the quintessential virile actor had a longtime affair with his barber while he was married to Lauren Bacall: Who was Bogie's barber? Is the story fact or HT Stanford Calif A Humphrey barber was Verita Thomp son a female hairdresser makeup artist and toupee designer She was friend and lover for 15 years from 1942 until his death in 1957 A full accounting of their affair is available in and by Verita Thompson with Donald Shep herd (St Press 1982) si! I A 'I Vt Verita and Bogie (without his toupee) in Rome in 1954 Qis it true that ex President Ronald Reagan said of ex President Richard Nixon: think much of the criticism of Nixon was based on noth ing at all" Richard Nixon was the only US Pres ident to resign his office Watergate was such a vicious scandal So many Nixon associates were sent to jail so many lives and reputations were ruined How could Reagan so airily dismiss role in that American tragedy? Can it be that Ronald memory is completely shot? GO Topanga Calif A Ronald Reagan will be 80 on eb 6 1991 His memory and hearing are not what they used to be Neither are his scholarship and erudi tion But his opinion of the Nixon Administration and the Nixon character are honestly held and forcefully expressed QWhen movie star Paulette Goddard the former wife of Charlie Chaplin died this year how old was she how many times and to whom had she been married and most important how much was she worth? Marilyn rawley Philadelphia Pa A Paulette Goddard (real name: Marion Paulette in her prime MTnA 41 Levy) is listed in several reference books as having been bom on June 3 191 1 on Long Island NY Of ficials in Ronco the Swiss village where she died on April 23 recorded her birthday as June 3 1905 making her 84 She was married to businessman Edgar James actors Charles Chaplin and Burgess Meredith and Erich Maria Remarque German bom writer of Quiet on the Western Report edly she bequeathed more than $20 million in addi tion to papers to New York University Patricia Kluge who split from John Kluge this wealthiest billionaire report edly is dating Douglas Wilder first black governor of Virginia A few questions: Is she American? Did she ever work as a belly dancer? What qualifies her to serve on the University of Virginia board of trustees to which Governor Wilder appointed her? Has their relationship ruined political Alexander Myers Henderson NC A Patricia Kluge 41 Iraqi born Briton who was once a seminude belly dancer and magazine sex adviser has been married twice She holds no spe 1 I lLO' EA jfMi cial academic credentials that might qualify her to serve as trustee of the Uni versity of Virginia Wild er 59 divorced his wife in 1978 and as a lawyer worked his way to high positions in the Democratic Party be fore being elected governor of Virginia His relation ship with Kluge may well Pat Kluge: Unqualified? cloud his political future QWhat was PresidentJohn Secret Service code name on Nov 22 1963 the day he was assassinated in Texas? And who were the Dallas businessmen who paid for the ad trash ing President Kennedy and his brother Bobby that appeared in the Morning News" on that some day? SA Los Angeles Calif A President Secret Service code nameon the day of his death was The three Dallas businessmen who paid for the full page newspaper advertisem*nt to which you refer were Edgar Crissey an insurance executive Nelson Bunker Hunt the oil tycoon and HR Bright a trucking bigwig who later owned a major interest in the Dallas Cowboys football team I Nicole Kidman and this Tom Cruise il By whose authority does magazine TV have the right to declare Tom Cruise Sexiest Man Alive" I also would appreciate know ing if Cruise is going to marry Nicole Kidman who played opposite him in of Thunder" How much taller is she than he? Shelly Schreiner Daytona Beach la A Declaring Cruise Sexiest Man LX is a sales promotion gimmick for which no authority is required The word in Australia whence Nicole Kidman comes is that friends expect her to be Mrs Thomas Cruise Mapother IV before the year is out although how they know is guess At 5 feet 11 Nicole is two inches taller than Tom OWUTER SCOTT 1990 A A roBUSHraC1o Vittorini EDITOR Walter Anderson PRESIDENT rank McNulty SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT Milton Ueberman VICE PRESIDENT Ken Wallace' 1 9 I 1 MANAGING EDITOR Lany Smith DIRECTOR DESIGN Ira Votto EDITOR AT LARGE Lloyd Shearer SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT WH aam A I I I I EXECUTIVE EDITOR David Currier SENIOR EDITORS Sara Bnowsky Herbert Kupferberg Gael McCarthy SENIOR COPY EDITOR Martin Timins I RJ1 SENIOR ARTICLES EDITOR ran Carpentier ASSOCIATE EDITOR Bonnie St Clair ART DIRECTOR Jean ujisaki PHOTO EDITOR Miriam Lorentaen CONTRIBUTING EDITORS Diane Ackerman Cleveland Amory Usa Bimbach James Brady Jane Ciabattarl Haskell Cohen Bob Colacello Ovid Demeris Bernard Gavzer TUt CIIMHAV unucnanrn uarMTlur David Halberstam Larry King Elinor Klein Iris Love Peter Maas Norman Mailer bnn Minton Willie Monts Michael Dotson Rader Michael Ryan Carl Sagan fc wUNU4l NtndrArtK iVIAuAZIrlt Al Sarrtoli Marvin Scott Tom Seligson Gail Sheehy Tad Szulc Wallace Terry Michael VerMeulen David Wallechinsky Lally Weymouth LIESTYLE EDITOR Elizabeth Gaynor SENIOR DESIGN ASSOCIATES Joy Jackson Childs Joseph DiBlasi Al Troiani ART ASSOCIATES Michael Anthony Leroy Scarboro ASSISTANT ARTICLES EDITOR Rente Keller A 2 6 1 9 9 0 WASHINGTON Jack Anderson bureau chief Opal Ginn CONSULTING EDITORS Sey Chassler John rook EDITORIAL ASSISTANTS Melissa Angel Roberta Gardner 9 Anita Com Ronald HHIery Gtda Ingrassla Lou Leventhal Nita Modha Beverly Pebarue Teressa Platt Patricia Wolf Address editorial contributions to: Articles Parade 750 Third OOP AITORS Shelto Lukins and Julee Rosso HEAITH EDITOR Earl Ubell SPORTS EDITOR Dick Schaap PUBLISHER EMERITUS Warren Reynolds 10017 Although reasonable he Mew VtoffcNtl0017aMitBMitMiirtdlhonJuetiou ta Ib at my article lbortpeniiiMlowkBroMbetdwWRADLwlUMghlhBm4f taken Parada Is not responsible for unsoKcltod material tin Mm to RMe Ufe Better" efcrctMeretftrMfenwIaflf PandePieficationB bie Wilte SentTB SMBMmWy Inmienty ftuntt Bepgrt in traimirtn it Uopl ffhwnc PAGE 2 AUGUST 26 1990 "PARADE MAGAZINE I 4 iSs.

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