Isn`t it amazing how two women can recall the same incident so differently? In ”The True Gen” (Ernest Hemingway`s phrase for the real thing and the title of a biography published by Grove Press), both Lauren Bacall and Mary Hemingway recount a three-hour lunch in Malaga, Spain, in July, 1959. According to Mary, Bacall put on a ”man-capturing show,” purring: ”You`re even bigger than I imagined. Couldn`t you teach me about bullfights?” as she moved ”in very close.” Bacall says it was Papa who turned on the charm, calling her ”Miss Betty.” She says she knew Mary was not pleased when Mary asked her if she`d like to come along on a shoot and ”placed a bullet on my plate.”
”A fool would know that with tweeds and other daytime clothes, one wears gold and that with evening clothes, one wears platinum,” the Duchess of Windsor told a bomb-blitzed Britain in 1946. But, according to ”The Windsor Style” (Salem House), by Suzy Menkes, life was not always so cushy for the former Wallis Simpson. In 1934, before she married her Prince, she complained that ”the royalty stuff is very demanding on clothes,” and she asked her aunt in the States to send her ”any cheap pale-blue summer dress for country wear, about $20.”
”Utopia is . . . ” Omni magazine asked several famous people to complete the sentence, and here are some of their replies. Televangelist Tammy Faye Baker: ”I`d like it to look like Disneyland.” Developer Donald Trump:
”It would be a big city, and I would be in charge.” Novelist Kurt Vonnegut: ”Iceland-a nation on a human scale with a strong sense of family.”
