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...patchwork of old MGM movie clips, made its debut at Manhattan's Ziegfeld Theater with the help of a chorus line of venerable hoofers (Donald O'Connor, 50, Cyd Charisse, 53, and Marge Champion, 52), one retired Tarzan (Johnny Weissmuller, 71) and a true MGM golden-ager, Cory Grant, 72. But the stars of the evening were the narrators of the film: Actor-Dancer Gene Kelly, 63, and Astaire, who later adjourned to a lavish postscreening birthday party to which 900 had been invited. The festivities were vintage Hollywood hoopla, and the old footwork flash...
...They have canned Algerian orange juice there, which is really a drag. But you get used to those kind of things. You learn to tolerate them," Schecter says. although he didn't like some of the food, Schecter says, he cultivated--as a young teen-ager in a strange land--a taste for caviar and vodka while there...
...became his executive secretary. Jordan describes himself as a late-blooming progressive. A cousin founded Koinonia (Greek for fellowship or communion), a biracial farm in southwestern Georgia that deeply offended Ku Klux Klan members and other white racists in the 1940s. Even so, Jordan as a teen-ager opposed the black civil rights movement, only to change his mind a few years later...
...teen-ager looking for a job when Comedian George Burns signed her up for his Las Vegas night club act back in 1960. But Ann-Margret developed fast. After opening some eyes with her singing and dancing, she left Las Vegas after an eleven-day run and set out to become an actress. Last week the pair met again at Burns' Beverly Hills home to toast their most recent successes: George's Academy Award nomination as Best Supporting Actor for his role in The Sunshine Boys, Ann-Margret's as Best Actress for her part in Tommy...
Moreover, warns Eckstein, if a nation frustrates the ambitions of large numbers of people to work, "you destroy social cohesion." The black who wants to hold a steady job, the woman who wants to use her training and talents outside the home, the teen-ager who longs to start supporting himself, could, with some justice, feel bitter against an economic system that confines them to, at best, in-and-out roles in the labor market...