Black Widow

A woman dubbed the "Black Widow" after she was convicted of poisoning her husband and who once faked her own death has died of exposure while trying to elude authorities. "It seems to be an anticlimactic way for someone who was the great escape artist" to die, Calhoun County Dist. Atty. Bob Field said today. Audrey Marie Hilley, who had received a three-day pass from prison to visit her second husband at a hotel, was muddy and incoherent when she was found Thursday on a porch in a rural area.

"Black Widow" (citywide) sounds intriguing from the moment you hear the cast and the pitch-perfect premise: the obsession of one young woman (Debra Winger) with the life and crimes of another--an irresistible young seductress (Theresa Russell) who marries, then buries a succession of extremely rich men.

An aunt from Illinois who has learned all she knows about Los Angeles by reading Chicago columnist Mike Royko is visiting for a few days and it's driving me crazy. Forget that she is as ignorant about L.A. as Royko is. I can handle that. But she is also terribly nervous, hums all day and is visiting during the height of rattlesnake-black widow-fire season. I picked Emily up at the airport last Monday.