Elizabeth Taylor credits fans after hospital stay
Liz Taylor, back home after nine weeks in hospital, thanks fans for love and support cited in Ladies' Home Journal. The 58 year old says recovery will take months after severe sinus infection and pneumonia led to hospital transfers. She plans to resume fundraising for AIDS research and education.
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Cruise Withdraws as Captain Hero in Captain Planet Show
AP reports Tom Cruise will not voice Captain Hero in the new Captain Planet and the Planeteers series. Turner Broadcasting, based in Atlanta, developed the show which debuted yesterday. Barbara Pyle confirms Cruise balked due to Days of Thunder filming. David Coburn will replace him.
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Tragic Elevator Death Shapes Helen Gurley Brown’s Early Life
In 1932 Iowa? No Arkansas tale, Cosmopolitan founder Helen Gurley Brown recalls her father Ira Gurley a state legislator and schoolteacher. He died after attempting to board a closing elevator at the state Capitol leaving the family "poor poor" and her childhood marked by loss.
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Turning Point in Helen Gurley Brown's Rise to Cosmo Leader
In a candid interview Helen Gurley Brown recalls family hardship from moving to Los Angeles to polio illness, her 17-year struggle as a secretary and copywriter, and how survival shaped her path to publishing Sex and the Single Girl and leading Cosmopolitan. Glenn Plaskin interviews weekly.
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