[wideawake]

I never said she attended his funeral. What she did do was allow all kinds of speculation: "will she show, won't she show?" so that his long-suffering wife was greeted at the funeral with reporters looking for her husband's mistress.

All Hepburn needed to do was make a preannounced public appearance elsewhere that day to get the press jackals off of Louise's back.

Now everyone romanticizes it as "oh, she stayed away out of respect!"

[smiley]

Wrong again, A&E ran a bio on both Hepburn and Tracy, separately. You may be interested to know that Tracy's wife did know about the relationship between him and Hepburn and was okay with it. Hepburn, Tracy and Tracy's wife remained good friends all through Tracy's life. Tracy had alcohol problems way before he met Hepburn which started in Tracy's wild drinking days of his boyhood. The night Tracy died he was on his way to the kitchen to make himself some tea and suffered a heart attack on the kitchen floor. Hepburn heard the crash of the teacup and saucer and ran down to the kitchen. That's when she discovered Tracy on the floor dead. If you get a chance, you may want to review both bios of these individuals. It's quite an eye opener.