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WALTER SCOTT'S 
Personality Parade

Want the facts? Opinion? Truth? Write Walter Scott, Box 5573, Beverly Hills, Calif. 90210, or phone (213) 651-3375. Full name will be used unless otherwise requested. Volume of mail makes personal replies impossible.

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Eastwood and Locke before Sondra's smiles turned to fury

Q. After living and loving with Clint Eastwood off and on for 10 years, actress Sondra Locke files a palimony suit against him, claiming that he talked her into two abortions and a sterility operation, locked her out of her house and in general did her dirt. An experienced attorney tells me that when a woman throws the book at her husband or lover in such a rough manner, it's usually because "hell hath no fury like a woman scorned." Is it possible that Clint Eastwood has taken up with some other woman, causing Sondra Locke to lose her cool? - M.K., Monterey, Calif.

A. There's always that possibility. Eastwood has been conjecturally paired with everyone from Barbra Streisand to the Tooth Fairy.

Q. Is there a special reason why Barbara Bush always wears the same necklace of beads? - Marian Pontecorvo, Alhambra, Calif.

A. Mrs. Bush does not always wear the same necklace. She candidly admits, however, that one reason she wears beads is to hide her neck wrinkles.

Q. How true is the statement that more than 80 percent of the men who play in the National Football League and the National Basketball Association are black? - Bob Turner, Justin, Okla.

A. As of this writing, 55 percent of the players in the National Football League and 75 percent in the National Basketball Association are black.

Q. Who is or was the (self-made) wealthiest President of the United States? - Ala Johnson, Charleston, S.C.

A. Probably Herbert Hoover (1874-1964), who started out in life in West Branch, Iowa, and was never graduated from high school. He took the entrance exams, however, for the newly opened Stanford University in Palo Alto, Calif., and in 1891 was conditionally admitted to its first freshman class. Hoover majored in geology, became a mining engineer and struck it rich by evaluating and inspecting prospective mines throughout the world. By 1914, his fortune was estimated at $4 million. When Hoover was elected President in 1928, he was said to be worth double or triple that figure.

Q. In her early Hollywood period, wasn't the late Lucille Ball frequently friendly with various studio executives, directors and actors? - Martha Lerner, Buffalo, N.Y.

A. For a time in 1941-42, it was hushed about in studio circles that Lucille Ball had become inordinately fond of Henry Fonda while acting with him in "The Big Street," possibly the most serious and worthwhile film of her career. In "The Big Street," the actress played a selfish cripple with such controlled passion and understanding that director Irving Reis advised her to seek out more melodramatic parts in the future. In any case, Ball's rumored infatuation with Fonda diminished into a pleasant memory. Both players were too common-sensible to endanger their marriages - hers to Desi Arnaz and his to the former Frances Brokaw.

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Ball and Fonda in The Big Street, Lucy's best drama

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Olivia (l) and Joan in late '40s, when sibling rivalry raged

Q. How come the sisters Olivia de Havilland and Joan Fontaine are still feuding after 40 years? - Thomas Hanshaw, Canfield, Ohio

A. De Havilland, 72, and Fontaine, 71, are not the feuding sisters they were when both actresses were young and fiercely competitive.

Q. On television a few nights ago, one of those "inside entertainment" programs broadcast that the late Marilyn Monroe was bisexual. An actor married to a famous stripteaser said that his wife had partaken in an affair with Marilyn and that he had written about it in a forthcoming book. I have heard an awful lot about Marilyn Monroe in my time, but never that she was bisexual. Was she? - T.A., Las Vegas, Nev.

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MM - as in Mostly Males

A. Marilyn Monroe was a swinger who, in the course of her lifetime, may have engaged in one or two affairs with a person of her own sex. But she was overwhelmingly heterosexual, concentrating her time, ardor and favors on men. In all her 36 years, Marilyn was alleged to have had an affair with only one woman - a drama coach - and Hollywood put little stock in that rumor.

(c) WALTER SCOTT 1989


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