Last week Elizabeth Taylor died at the age of 79, and since then plenty of stories and images have resurfaced. Here is the actress pictured in New York City in 1964—with her are Sammy Davis Jr., his wife May Britt, and Richard Burton. Burton was her 5th husband, whom she married that year... though it's unclear if the wedding took place before or after he made the moves on another woman!
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Flashback: Elizabeth Taylor's Husband Spotted Canoodling With Sammy Davis, Jr.'s Wife!
FBI Files Point To Kennedy Sex Parties On UES
Over 2,000 previously-guarded FBI documents were revealed yesterday, all with one common tie: Ted Kennedy. Not so shocking is that the Kennedy paper trail eventually leads to sex parties with Marilyn Monroe. Yep, according to the documents, which the Smoking Gun got a hold of, the juiciest bit of vintage gossip is that Ted, John and Bobby Kennedy, along with Marilyn and some of the Rat Pack, used to hold the scandalous soirees at JFK's suite at the Carlyle Hotel.
Original Pie Comedian, Soupy Sales, Dies At 83
The original anarchic comedy hero for teenagers and college students, Soupy Sales, died Thursday in a hospice in New York City after suffering from multiple health problems. He was 83. Soupy, one of the only known men to have splattered a pie in Fank Sinatra's face and take more than 20,000 cream-fille tins to his own, won over TV audiences young and old, but mostly young, in the 1950s and '60s.
Copaca-closing
The Copacabana, perhaps best known as the muse for Barry Manilow's song of the same name, is closing this weekend (the papers are reporting last night, however their website has a flyer for a Last Dance, tonight).
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