Posted on 01/29/2015 9:18:37 AM PST by EveningStar
Colleen McCullough, a former neurophysiological researcher at Yale who, deciding to write novels in her spare time, produced The Thorn Birds, a multigenerational Australian romance that became an international best seller and inspired a hugely popular television mini-series, died on Thursday on Norfolk Island in the South Pacific, where she had made her home for more than 30 years. She was 77.
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I was a co-panelist at a chili cook-off with Richard Chamberlain at the Marine House at the Embassy in Harare, Zimbabwe in 1985. He was a real nice guy, didn’t hit on any Marines. Sharon Stone was there as well. They were there filming “King Solomon’s Mine’s.”
Chamberlain seemed to strike me as someone who has kept his personal business to himself. I don’t think we’d have half the problems we do with gays today if they stopped flaunting it perpetually and demanding applause for their lifestyle.
Concur.
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