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- <title>
- Mar. 14, 1994: People
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- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1994
- Mar. 14, 1994 How Man Began
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- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- PEOPLE, Page 109
- By Ginia Bellafante
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- <p>In Search of the Simple Life
- </p>
- <p> Embracing the less-is-better ethos of the '90s, BARBRA STREISAND
- says she doesn't "want so many things anymore"; two houses will
- do, "rather than seven." So the diva put her Art Deco collection
- on the block at Christie's and had her biggest hit in years.
- A Tamara de Lempicka painting went for a record $2 million.
- A Tiffany lamp brought in 100 times what Streisand paid for
- it--a cool $717,500. Enough for Babs to buy out Ikea.
- </p>
- <p>SEEN & HEARD
- </p>
- <p> Despite embarrassing leaks from her phone conversations, Princess
- Diana has yet to swear off her cellphone. A fortunate thing
- for her countrymen: driving solo through London, Di spotted
- a couple whose car had stalled. The royal Samaritan assisted
- by using her car phone to dial up help.
- </p>
- <p> After spending just over one month in a psychiatric hospital,
- overly emotional knife wielder Lorena Bobbitt has been released.
- With her free time she is--like so many famously disturbed
- people--poring over movie offers. She would like Marisa Tomei
- to portray her. Perhaps Joe Pesci would be available to play
- John Bobbitt.
- </p>
- <p> Yoko Ono has never been noted for her extensive fan base. Yet
- the screechy erstwhile performance artist is setting records
- at Manhattan's WPA theater with her upcoming musical, New York
- Rock--music and lyrics by Ono. WPA, which has launched such
- plays as Steel Magnolias, is recording its biggest advance ticket
- sales ever for the show.
- </p>
- <p>Gripes of a Golden Girl
- </p>
- <p> NANCY KERRIGAN, you've won the ad dollars of some of America's
- best known corporations. What are you going to do next? I'm
- going to be uppity and ungracious! The Olympic silver medalist
- and Disney endorser was apparently less than delighted about
- riding a MICKEY MOUSE float during a Disney World parade. "This
- is so corny. This is so dumb. I hate it," TV footage caught
- her muttering. "This is the corniest thing I've ever done."
- But Kerrigan's snippiness will hardly cut into her bonanza.
- Recently bestowed with a Revlon contract, she now has endorsement
- deals totaling close to $10 million. Meanwhile, more ill fate
- has befallen her rival. Tonya Harding--for whom there are
- no cartoon-character parades--suffered bumps and bruises after
- an assault in an Oregon park.
- Next Year Call Emily Post
- </p>
- <p> Despite big winner Whitney Houston's repeated thank-yous to
- God and her handlers, the 36th annual Grammy Awards proved to
- be an homage to bad manners. First BONO, who smoked a cigarette
- while gracing the Radio City Music Hall stage (a privilege one
- suspects is unavailable to the Rockettes), accepted an award
- for U2's Zooropa by declaring that "we shall continue to abuse
- our position and f---up the mainstream." Bono reappeared later
- to deliver a rambling tribute to FRANK SINATRA and present him
- with a Grammy Legend award. Ol' Blue Eyes, seeming somewhat
- shaky, indicated that he was upset he hadn't been asked to sing.
- "That's not what they wanted tonight," he said. "I'm angry.
- I'm hurt." But the ceremony's rudest gesture came when CBS cut
- away from Sinatra's acceptance speech to announce a list of
- pretelecast winners. The show's producers denied culpability,
- claiming the decision had been made by "Frank's own people."
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