Hepburn biography lists lots of love interests

Hepburn biography listslots of love interests
A quick glance at Katharine Hepburn's list of lovers in a soon-to-be-released biography might prompt fans to wonder where the woman found time to make movies.
According to "Katharine the Great," due out Valentine's Day from Blood Moon Productions, the late actress' many conquests included Claudette Colbert, Ernest Hemingway, John Ford, Greta Garbo, George Stevens, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Judy Holliday, John Barrymore, Robert Mitchum, Judy Garland, Burt Lancaster, Robert Ryan and Paul Henreid.
Hepburn was one busy bisexual, contends author Darwin Porter. In addition to her legendary love affair with Spencer Tracy, Porter writes, she had a lifelong romance with American Express heiress Laura Harding. She also had a sexual attachment to close friend Irene Selznick, wife of producer David O. Selznick, the book says; the two chums liked to break into Hollywood mansions for fun.
First lady Eleanor Roosevelt had a crush on Kate, Porter notes. But then again, if this unauthorized bio is to be believed, who didn't?
Comedian: Be seriousabout your education
NEW YORK -- Bill Cosby got serious with 500 ninth-graders at a talk Monday commemorating the Supreme Court's landmark Brown vs. Board of Education ruling.
"Take that education," Cosby told the teens. "Don't tell me it's boring. You're going to be boring in about 10 years, and you may be boring while you're sitting in a cell, because you decided to do something that breaks the law. Why? Because you couldn't get a job. Why? Because you didn't want to give yourself a chance. Why? Because you don't like yourself."
The 66-year-old comedian spoke at Riverside Church at an event hosted by Columbia University's Teachers College, where his son, Ennis, had been a doctoral student. Ennis Cosby was fatally shot in 1997.
The talk was one of hundreds of events around the country celebrating the 50th anniversary of the 1954 desegregation ruling, which is the official theme for February's Black History Month.
Rosie: Back on Broadway?
Ah, the seductive lure of the bright lights of Broadway. Fresh from losing her $10 million investment in the Boy George-inspired mega-flop "Taboo," Rosie O'Donnell is ready to produce again.
She's found the perfect vehicle for another theatrical endeavor: her own fascinating self. O'Donnell is looking to bring her memoir "Find Me" to the stage and is in discussions with Cyndi Lauper to write the score, Lauper told MSNBC.com.
Manilow goes home
Barry Manilow has returned to his Palm Springs, Calif., home after hospitalization for stress-related chest pain that the singer attributes to heartbreak over a musical that closed in Philadelphia.
"My heart was broken, but the doctors put it back together and I will continue to fight," said Manilow, who spent two days in New York last week in arbitration, trying to regain the rights to "Harmony."
The battle pits Manilow and co-writer Bruce Sussman against producer Mark Schwartz, who shut down the show about the Comedian Harmonists, a singing group popular during the last days of Germany's Weimar Republic.
Today's birthdays
Civil rights pioneer Rosa Parks is 91. Feminist author Betty Friedan is 83. Actor William Phipps is 82. Actor Conrad Bain is 81. Actor Gary Conway is 68. Movie director George A. Romero is 64. Rock musician John Steel (The Animals) is 63. Singer Florence LaRue (The Fifth Dimension) is 60. Comedian David Brenner is 59. Former Vice President Dan Quayle is 57. Rock singer Alice Cooper is 56. Country singer Clint Black is 42. Country musician Dave Buchanan (Yankee Grey) is 38. Actor Michael Goorjian is 33. Rock musician Rick Burch (Jimmy Eat World) is 29. Singer Natalie Imbruglia is 29. Rapper Cam'ron is 28.