Middle-aged musketeers stage a comeback

Press, 28 November 1988, Page 11

Middle-aged musketeers stage a comeback

I’m not one to gossip but ... get out the liniment, the musketeers are making a comeback some 15 years later. Michael York, 41, Richard Chamberlain, 52, Frank Finlay, 61, and Oliver Reed, 51, are putting the finishing touches to their movie “Return of the Three Musketeers” on location in Spain. Kenny Rogers’ son, Kenny Rogers, jun., 24, last week married the mother of his child in a ceremony so secret that his dad knew nothing about it — in fact he saw it on the TV news. Sylvester Stallone’s mother Jackie has been devastated by the shocking suicide of her exboyfriend in Las Vegas. Patrick Manwhinney, 54, shot himself, and police contacted Jackie after finding her phone number in his wallet. Patrick and Jackie were involved professionally and romantically for several years, but they broke up about a year ago. At the moment Jackie is going out with a very, very wealthy Texas financier who wants to keep right out of the public eye. Author Michael Thornton plans to name the famous “headless man,” who became the star of one of the world’s juiciest divorce scandals. When

the Duke of Argyll sued his wife for divorce, almost 25 years ago, he produced a bizarre photo in court as evidence of adultery. The Duchess has never told who the man was, but now Michael threatens to tell in his book soon to be published.

The men heading the suspect list are President John F. Kennedy, David Niven, Ari Onassis, Errol Flynn, Howard Hughes, and Cary Grant. What a line-up to select from — of course they are now all dead. The duchess still enjoys a champagne lifestyle in London at the age of 75. She has vowed never to publicly name the “headless man” as long as she lives.

Another Hollywood book hit the stands early next year, revealing Joan Crawford’s stunning love secrets. It not only tells how the superstar handled the many men in her life, but of her passionate pursuit of women. Among them were Bette Davis, Crawford’s children’s nurse, and Marilyn Monroe. The book says Joan was in love with Bette Davis, but it was a oneway love. Joan’s sexual passes at Marilyn Monroe were always rebuffed. These and other intimate details of the screen queen’s love life are fully detailed in a blazing biography called “Crawford’s Men” by Jane Ellen Wayne. Elizabeth Taylor has had to cancel the American tour to promote her new perfume “Passion,” because a law suit is being filed over the fragrance. The late Rock Hudson law suit is going on and on. The actor’s lover Marc Christian is still suing the estate for $ll million because, he says, he lives in constant fear of having contracted A.I.D.S. from Hudson. Now the Hudson estate has filed a $2 million countersuit, claiming that Christian, 33, blackmailed Hudson, was a prostitute when Rock wasn’t around,

and stole about $60,000worth of the late actor’s property. Elizabeth Taylor is one of the friends of the late Hudson who will be speaking out against Christian in court in a couple of months. Meanwhile Marc Christian has been working on his book about his life and times with Hudson. It’s called “Between Rock and a Hard Place” ... but my lips are sealed.