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Driven to distraction by the amorous betrayals of her husband, Jackie Kennedy embarked on a wild fling with ballet dancer Rudolf Nureyev while she was still in the White House, according to a new tell-all book. Nureyev, who was nine years younger than the First Lady, was also once spotted with Jackie’s brother-in-law Robert F. Kennedy ‘kissing each other passionately in a phone box’, the book claims. Much has been written through the years about President Kennedy’s dalliances while in office. His mistresses were famously said to include actresses Marilyn Monroe and Angie Dickinson, mafia moll Judith Exner and a...

EXCLUSIVE - 'She couldn't wait and allowed him to seduce her in a creaky French elevator': Bombshell book reveals Jackie Kennedy's secret lovers, her revenge on JFK with William Holden, her steamy night with Brando and her forbidden affairs with Bobby AND Teddy New book reveals that Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis was a passionate woman who had many men--before, during and after her marriage to JFK Authors say she bedded Hollywood actors Warren Beatty, Paul Newman, Gregory Peck and Frank Sinatra, among others Confessed Brando, 'She took matters into her own hands and popped the magic question, ‘Would you like to...

DUBLIN — As the Gestapo surrounds the palace of an Italian anti-Fascist aristocrat, an Irish priest dashes to the cellar. He is wanted by the Nazis for his role in the daring rescues of Jews, POWs and refugees, but this time it seems there is no escape. Miraculously, a coal delivery being made to the palace offers the perfect cover — the cleric blackens his face, hides his cassock and slips away to freedom through the narrow cobbled streets of Rome. This dramatic scene, recreated in the 1983 movie “The Scarlet and the Black” starring Gregory Peck as Monsignor...

Two startling revelations about long-hidden work by "To Kill a Mockingbird" author Harper Lee have stunned readers awaiting Tuesday's release of her new book, "Go Set a Watchman." Lee's attorney, Tonja Carter, hinted Monday in an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal that the reclusive author may have written a third novel. Carter wrote that she recently examined the contents of a safe-deposit box in Lee's hometown of Monroeville, Alabama, and saw the manuscript for "Watchman" lying "underneath a stack of a significant number of pages of another typed text." "Was it an earlier draft of 'Watchman,' or of 'Mockingbird,'...

LOS ANGELES -- Police said Gregory Peck's star has been stolen from the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Authorities said they don't know when it happened. Police said they learned of the stolen star from Johnny Grant, who serves as Hollywood's honorary mayor and oversees the sidewalk salute to celebrity. Grant said Peck's star apparently disappeared sometime between Nov. 17 and Nov. 22. The late acting legend's star is the fourth one to be stolen since the Walk of Fame started in 1960. Years ago, stars honoring James Stewart and Kirk Douglas disappeared after they were removed during a construction project...

POLICY AGAINST CUBA IS NOT THE AMERICAN WAY An exclusive interview with Harry Belafonte By Sandra Levinson Cubanow.- What kind of commitment does it take to still be here, supporting Cuba, after all these years? I don't see it as a supreme effort, it's a way of life: if you believe in freedom, if you believe in justice, if you believe in democracy, if you believe in people's rights, if you believe in the harmony of all humankind, I don't know if you have any other choice than to be there for as long as it takes. But, what I...

ENTRANCES AND EXITS: GREGORY PECK I think of Gregory Peck as walking on and walking off, with a little speech-giving in between. In Other People’s Money (1991), he plays the head of New England Wire & Cable, an old-fashioned family firm being stalked by a corporate asset-stripper in the blunt form of Danny De Vito. Peck is there to represent, as he often did, decency and dignity and rock-ribbed nobility, and he gives us one of Hollywood’s last great Frank Capra moments, standing up at the stockholders’ meeting and defending his company’s solid all-American values. It’s a great speech and...

More than 2,000 mourners said goodbye to legendary actor Gregory Peck in a public memorial service Monday in Los Angeles. Peck, who was 87, died in his sleep Thursday. He was laid to rest during a private service in the crypt-mausoleum beneath the Roman Catholic Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels. Among the mourners at the service were Harrison Ford, Calista Flockhart, Harry Belafonte, Anjelica Huston, Tony Danza and Michael York; as well as Peck's family, including his wife, Veronique, his sons, Stephen, Anthony and Carey, and his daughter, Cecilia Peck-Voll. Brock Peters, who played Tom Robinson, a black...

LOS ANGELES (AFP) - Hollywood will bid farewell to Oscar-winning screen legend Gregory Peck at a giant memorial service on Monday following a small private burial in Los Angeles, his publicist told AFP. Peck died at home in his sleep Thursday at the age of 87. The public mass in the city's huge new cathedral will be led by the head of the largest US Catholic diocese, Cardinal Roger Mahoney, and the eulogy was to be given by Peck's "To Kill A Mockingbird" co-star, Brock Peters. Peck was considered a consummate movie star, known for playing heroes on the screen...

<p>I remember not too long ago when a friend of mine lost his father to cancer, he talked of his only consolation being that at least his dad and mom would be together.</p> <p>But it's what he said next that stuck with me. "Neil, it's just me and my sisters. There's no one in front of us now."</p>

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<p>LOS ANGELES  — Gregory Peck (search), the lanky, handsome movie star whose long career included such classics as Roman Holiday, Spellbound and his Academy Award-winner, To Kill a Mockingbird (search), has died, a spokesman said Thursday. He was 87.</p> <p>Peck died overnight, Monroe Friedman told The Associated Press.</p>