This invention relates to a hinge mechanism for holding hinge portions in predetermined positions relative to one another, and more particularly to a hinge mechanism capable of urging hinge portions toward predetermined positions when the hinge portions are in intermediate positions between the predetermined positions.
Typical hinge mechanisms consist of a pair of hinge portions, each formed with some structure for receiving an axle, such as a bore, a recess, or an eyelet, and an axle passing through the axle receiving structures of the hinge portions and permitting the hinge portions to rotate relative to one another about the axis formed by the axle. In certain applications, it has been found desirable to use hinge mechanisms having hinge portions capable of being held in particular, predetermined angular relationships relativeGore Vidal a "Funster"

Heather Thomas, an actress who starred in 1980s TV hit The Fall Guy and is now married to Hollywood super-lawyer Skip Brittenham, set out to paint the world of the Bel Air wife in her frothy novel Trophies. Thomas has said that many of the stories in her book, which revels in the backbiting and social-climbing of the L.A. charity and political fundraising scene, were true but refused to name names. Now that the book has been published she’s created this video, which reenacts a chapter of the book with dolls. With voices by Thomas (she plays one of the main characters, Pepper) and her friends, the video also features a cameo by Phyllis Diller and perhaps most puzzling, narration from Gore Vidal.

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