Who was the bigger megalomaniac: Imelda Marcos or Richard Nixon?
Nixon. Imelda was just greedy, like Evita Perón. She never forgave Helen for putting in Cosmo that she was the second-richest woman in the world. But Nixon, with those secret tapes? I liked him very much after he ceased to be president; I saw him several times on social occasions. He knew more about politics than anybody. He endeared himself to me when, on one of our visits to San Clemente, he said the one thing he would miss about the White House was the projection room. Clockwise from top: Bill Kaye/Paramount; Kobal Collection; Universal Pictures; Dreamworks; Kobal Collection GREATEST HITS: Among the films in Brown’s portfolio (clockwise from top): Angela’s Ashes, the soon-to-be-released adaptation of the bestselling Frank McCourt novel; Jaws, starring a 3,000-pound, 24-foot-long mechanical shark; The Sting, which teamed Robert Shaw with Robert Redford and Paul Newman; Sugarland Express, which gave a young Steven Spielberg his feature-directing debut; and Love Me Tender, starring Elv
