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Article: Jack `King' Cooke: Henry VIII in Laurel? Of Wives, Estates and the Royal Style
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- The Washington Post
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- February 20, 1994
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FOR SOME TIME now, as Jack Kent Cooke has stomped across
Washington juggling wives, gulping up acreage, figuratively chopping
off political heads and dispensing favors from his owner's throne to
fawning courtiers, some odd historical echo has been clattering
along behind . . . and suddenly, with Marlene banished to Mexico, it
all comes clear: It is the echo of Henry VIII - egocentric,
dysfunctional parent, religious expedient and the man who put
celebrity marriage on the gossip map.
Consider: Both had lengthy first marriages that were
fractiously and expensively dissolved, followed by a series of much
briefer entanglements. Both first marriages made history, of some
sort: Henry's ...