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Mrs Patrick Campbell, died on this date in 1940. A Grand Dame of English and American Theater. Mrs Pat had a physically unconsummated love affair by letter with George Bernard Shaw. She wrote to him: “Oh dear me — it’s too late to do anything but accept you and love you — but when you were quite a little boy, somebody ought to have said “HUSH” just once!” She co-starred with Norma Shearer in “Riptide” and with Peter Lorre in “Crime And Punishment”. What a woman !

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Donald Trump has a new show in the works: naughty girls are sent to a finishing school where they learn the manners they'll need to behave like socialites. Sounds tasteful. Now The New York Daily News is reporting that Mr. Trump, as he likes to be called, is looking to get Eliot Spitzer's call girl, Ashley Alexandra Dupre, to come on his show. Jo Piazza's Full Disclosure column writes that "A production source confirmed that the group reached out to the singing floozy and former call girl on Thursday, but have yet to hear back from her. But The Donald...

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KINSHASA, Democratic Republic of Congo, Dec. 16 (UPI) -- As many as 800,000 pygmies in the Democratic Republic of Congo are being abused and killed, The Times of London said Thursday. In regional conflicts spanning the past decade, the pygmies never took up arms, but have been targeted by virtually all the armed groups. The London-based Minority Rights Group said in a recent report it had evidence of "mass killings, cannibalism and rape" and called on the International Court of Justice in The Hague to pursue those responsible as war criminals. The report linked much of the violence to beliefs...