She was born Marta Victoria Moya on Feb. 23, 1931, in Buenos Aires. Her father, Antonio Moya Bourges, was a French immigrant who published magazines. Her mother, the former Rosario Pego, was Italian. In several interviews, Cristal said that her father came into conflict with a criminal gang and fled with his family to Montevideo, Uruguay. When she was 13, both of her parents died of carbon monoxide poisoning while in their car.
She studied voice and piano at the conservatory and at 16 married Argentine actor Tito Gómez. The marriage was annulled after only a few weeks. She thought of following the example of her five aunts and entering a convent, but fate intervened.
During a trip to Mexico with her older brother, she was spotted by producer Miguelito Alemán, son of Miguel Alemán, Mexico’s president, who gave her a small role in one of his films. She later made eight films with actor and producer Raúl de Anda, using the name Linda Cristal.
“I never became a big star, but then I wouldn’t have been a big nun either,” she told Look magazine in 1960.
Cristal tried for years to make it big in movies, but that never happened. It was television that boosted her career. She won a Golden Globe award for her work on The High Chapparal.
She was married twice, had two sons, and two grandchildren.
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A few cartoons:
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The USSC ruled correctly in overturning a Louisiana abortion law. It ruled 5-4, with Chief Justice Roberts ruling with the majority.
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Serial killer/rapist Joseph DeAngelo has pleaded guilty to 13 counts of first-degree murder, thus sparing himself of the death penalty and saving taxpayers millions in trial and appeals fees.
Given his age, a life sentence won't be long.
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Nothing surprises me anymore about Donald Trump.
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Carl Bernstein:
The calls caused former top Trump deputies -- including national security advisers H.R. McMaster and John Bolton, Defense Secretary James Mattis, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, and White House chief of staff John Kelly, as well as intelligence officials -- to conclude that the President was often "delusional," as two sources put it, in his dealings with foreign leaders. The sources said there was little evidence that the President became more skillful or competent in his telephone conversations with most heads of state over time. Rather, he continued to believe that he could either charm, jawbone or bully almost any foreign leader into capitulating to his will, and often pursued goals more attuned to his own agenda than what many of his senior advisers considered the national interest._____
These officials' concerns about the calls, and particularly Trump's deference to Putin, take on new resonance with reports the President may have learned in March that Russia had offered the Taliban bounties to kill US troops in Afghanistan -- and yet took no action. CNN's sources said there were calls between Putin and Trump about Trump's desire to end the American military presence in Afghanistan but they mentioned no discussion of the supposed Taliban bounties.
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