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DATE: TUESDAY, March 8, 1994                   TAG: 9403080137
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THE PEOPLE COLUMN

Frank Sinatra rested at his Rancho Mirage, Calif., home Monday, a day after collapsing onstage during a performance at the Mosque auditorium in Richmond.

He said it was "very, very good to be home," and his spokeswoman said he'll resume his tour in a few weeks.

Sunday night, three hours after being taken by ambulance to the Medical College of Virginia Hospitals, the entertainer strode out of the facility. "He decided he wanted to leave, and he left," said a hospital spokesman. The singer was picked up by a limo early Monday and taken to an airport, where he left in a private plane.

Jack Nicholson insists that he's a shy man who enjoys long relationships with one woman. Not necessarily one woman at a time, though.

In April's issue of Vanity Fair magazine, Nicholson says he often lied to longtime girlfriend Anjelica Huston, with whom he lived for 17 years.

"Of course I lied to her," Nicholson said. "It's the other woman I would never lie to. You only lie to two people in your life: your girlfriend and the police. Everyone else you tell the truth to."

Nicholson learned at age 37 that his "mother" was actually his grandmother, and his "sister" was his mother. Nicholson's aunt, Lorraine Smith, says she admitted it after Nicholson received a letter from a man claiming to be his father. Nicholson said he wasn't upset by the deception.

It won't be long before Kurt Cobain can swap his hospital clothes for torn jeans and flannel shirts again.

The lead singer of the grunge-rock band Nirvana has recovered from his drug- and alcohol-induced coma and could leave the hospital as early as today.

"Cobain is doing fine and he only needs a period of rest now," his doctor, Osvaldo Galletta, said Monday.

Cobain, 27, fell into a coma early Friday after he combined a large dose of a strong sedative with champagne.



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