Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - September 8, 1990, Winnipeg, Manitoba
Helmsley scoffs at movie film depicts hotel magnates Rise and fall new York daily news new York when Cess movie the Queen of mean pre Mieres one person who swears she wont be watching is Leona the beleaguered hotel mag Nate whose tale of woe this film Alleg edly i think it was a mistake to make such a she people Are tired of and what else can be said that Hast been concocted ludicrous Ransdell author of the unauthorized biography upon which the drama is is labelled a sleaze by the Queen of the who standing guard on her reputation and that of her ailing Harry said to be one of the wealth Iest men in the i never spoke to him nor said Good morning to declared the striking nor did talking to household help is what Hes writing about is All he Doest know my private lunching in the elegant restaurant in the Helmsley hotel on new Yorks 42nd one of 18 currently owned by the Leona was in a state of her ailing 81yearold husband had fallen that morning and shed found him on the floor of the was not up to she shed had dental work which slightly affected her shed strained her the Sharp dressed in a Bill Blass Pink dress which she claimed was eight years old set off by a double strand of and flashing a Pink Topaz ring and a fake Diamond have them in every looked smash at she has the figure of a the she of proper diet and after every Lap she As the Book does a waiter stand there with a shrimp on a Platter not on your there a High cholesterol pointing out that Shes a Good but always he tastes Fife is depicted in the to us Queen of leans to Low Salt terrorized while a state judge threw out some 180 of the fraud counts against her Harry was deemed too frail to stand Leona was convicted on several charges that the couple disguised As business expenses renovations and furnishings at two of their Shes facing four years in prison and a 17 million but she its not Over appeals Are Ive been said with a Shes accused in the Queen of mean of being greedy and one who terrorized her emas she clawed her Way to the they hate she said As a smiling waiter who had been working for her for years served every time another employee came near her she repeated the line As if to prove the charges that her help hates her Are they love she her mood changed and suddenly she was indignant imagine Lloyd Bridges playing my Harry in the for one Hes too Short nobody can play theres Only one Harry Hes the most Brilliant Man on the face of the this Man created an Empire
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