European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 4, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Survivor Patricia Neal Dpi photo i have been told by three Fortune Mien that i m going to live till 95." by Bob Thomas associated press her life is a casebook of survival and Patricia meal is talking about it these Days with Complete Candor revealing her forbidden love Lor Gary co Operand the deception by her former husband the writer Roald Dahl. She is calling attention to her autobiography. As i am. By doing interviews three a Day is All she can manage. The effects of her near fatal stroke and a Job like series of tragedies Are still apparent difficulty in walking furtive searches for word and memories. But she dismisses her failings with the familiar throaty laugh. Meal s voice remains that Mellow Quality that fascinated viewers o the Fountainhead a face in the crowd Hud Lor which she received the Academy award As Best actress and the subject was roses it reflects the years As Wile and Mother in England bul the undertones of her beginnings in Packard by. Are unmistakable. And there is no mistaking that she remains at 62, a ram Beauty. As i am written with Richard Deneut. Dolls it All. Sho arrived in Hollywood in 1948 after a smashing Success on Broadway in another part of inc Forest. All of tha studios sought her. Bul Shu signed a Warner Bros contract because Jack Warner promised her Iha hit play John loves Mary. Her co Star was Ronald Reagan. When i started John loves Mary. Jano Wyman announced that she was divorcing Ronnie Neal recalled so to did t have an easy time on that film. Then i did the Fountainhead and Ronnie and i both went to London to do tha Hasty heart. We lived Side by Side in a hotel and while we never dated we often went to dinner together. I was in love with someone he did l know about no Ono did. And he was still very mud enamoured of Jane Wyman. After we finished picture he went Back and started going with present Wile.  the Romance hat no one knew about was her Fountainhead co Star Gary Cooper. It a be secret because he was married to the socialite Veronica Rocky Balle. Meal writes that Cooper once hit her Bechai she dated Kirk Douglas and that she had an abortion alter becoming pregnant by cooped Why is she finally telling the Story of her lo1 or Cooper Well it i write a Book on my life and i teat Gary Cooper Oul if won t be a real True Stop she said he was my great passion fora Lor time. Looking Back i still adore him and will always adors him. He was my Man when in first started. I did t think of Marr Gary Ever. Ii was just my Quick love and i to that no one would know. But i really loved Hir and it Well on and on. In the end we had to i in  in 1b53 Neal married Iho writer of Mysle and children s stories Roald Dahl. They sell great missed in near London and had thai children. The tragedies began baby throw by a Mew York taxi and nearly died Young o died suddenly of measles. Neal suffered a massive stroke while prep to film seven women with John Ford. Only a 21 Days did her doctor Tell Dahl that his wife was pregnant would live. It was a hard time to learn to talk again t walk again she said. I did t know one to irom the other. My son had great cards with words Willen on Thorn he she cat d and a would hold them up to  recovery was Long and slow and she a constantly driven by Oahu. Their fourth child Ophelia was born with no ill effects from her Mother s illness. Hollywood tradition imbed a photo Eddie Murphy autographing the am Eweun out eke Mann t chivas neater. By Russell Kishi United press International or nearly 70 years millions of tourists have come to Hollywood hoping to got a look at a celebrity they might have returned Home disappointed except for the Lamous Forecourt at the chinese theater on Hollywood Boulevard where for More than 60 years the stars have been leaving their signatures and other memorable imprints embedded in Concrete. Since 1927,171 stars have signed in on the Forecourt. While the roster has grown Al a much slower rate in the last two decades a theater spokesman said the Forecourt has t Tost ils Appeal As a Louril attraction. We have come up with a Ballpark figure of 2 million visitors each year through an unofficial head count said Bill Hertz director of marketing Tor the Mann s Heater Chain which has owned and operated the theater since 1973. I would have to say it ranks with some of the More popular tourist spots in the area certainly in Hollywood Hertz said. Hertz also said the most popular autographs by far Are those of Marilyn Monroe and John Wayne. I think you d find More Louril pictures taken Over their names than any others on the entire Forecourt he said in the Best Hollywood tradition the origins of the Forecourt Are part act and part Liolion concocted by showman Sid Grauman who opened the theater in May 1927. Grauman liked to say the idea of the celebrity Forecourt dawned on him when actress Norma Page 14 the stars and stripes Talmadge accidentally stepped into a slab o Concrete while arriving for a Lour of the theal Wilh Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford. Bul a Frenchman named Jean Klossner said he provided the recipe Lor the special Concrete claimed in 1949 Ilia it was Grai himself who stumbled into the wet Forecourt during construction Only after Grauman s Accident were Tel Nadge Pickford and Fairbanks summons opening Day. May 18,1927, to provide the in celebrity prints Klossner said. Klossner had several disputes with Theale management but said to was called Back e time because no one could match his Lormuel the Concrete. One autograph irom Jean Horsboll Brol into pieces he said. I was called in to Imp the Leet hands and pipe  but Klossner admitted thai his formula a always por Lect. "1 Send to Belgium for a special chemical 1 give Joan Crawford s Square a porcelain fit Klossner said. But it turned out a Lille crack Klossner also said a heckler tossed eggs the Wol Concrete just after a 1936 ceremony honouring character actor Victor Mclaglen. Mclaglen s space remains denied 52 Yea later and Crawford s spot is just As cracked Ever was. Klossner said he Kepi the Concrete formal secret code sealed in a Bank vault. For Yean was As much a part of the imprint ceremony the stars themselves arriving in an artist s 6 and Beret making much of his preparations he attended ceremonies Lor everyone Fror William s. Hart who left a gun imprint in 192 a 6-year-old Shirley Temple who wrote lev saturday