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Catherine Deneuve smiles for Chanel, Margaux Hemingway for Babe, and Victoria Fyodorova for Alexandra de Markoff. For the Paris house of Nina Ricci, it's Andréa de Portago. Andréa Who? Not exactly a household name, Andréa, 26, is an aspiring New York actress and the daughter of the 17th Marquis de Portago, the flamboyant Spanish Grand Prix driver killed in 1957 in Italy's Mille Miglia. While doing the disco scene one night at Manhattan's Régine's, she was spotted by Nina Ricci representatives. They excitedly hired...
Elizabeth Philip is strikingly beautiful in her photographed sequence and holds a choreographed tension throughout the play. Elizabeth Bronfen is suitably lactic and senile as Queen Victoria, while Lisa Claudy and Danielle Alexandra both flow through their mimes with professional ease and individuality. The actors are obviously competent and make do as best they can, but responsibility for their scattered incoherence must lie with the director...
...here comes another high-priced face. Victoria Fyodorova, the Soviet actress who came to the U.S. in 1975 in search of her long-lost American father, retired Rear Admiral Jack Tate, and soon married an airline pilot, has signed a five-year contract to advertise cosmetics put out by Alexandra de Markoff, a division of Lanvin. The company reckoned that her name and chiseled cheekbones fit the de Markoff image. Victoria, who has caught on i quickly to the ways of the consumer society, claims a lifelong interest in cosmetics. "As a child, I would make up my dolls...
...Schuster has just guaranteed Joseph Heller as much as $1.7 million for his next novel-more and more authors are being forced to put up or pay up. The most spectacular example of this new punctiliousness is the case of Robert Massie, author of the 1967 bestseller Nicholas and Alexandra. In 1968 Massie received a $130,000 advance from Atheneum for his next book, a biography of Peter the Great. The manuscript was due in June 1971. By then Massie was only midway through the project. When Atheneum refused his request for another $370,000 advance, the author set aside...
...lost profits." The case went to arbitration, and last month the publisher was awarded return of the $130,000 advance, about $16,000 in interest, plus 25% of any money Massie makes from Peter-if it is ever completed. Massie's repayment will be deducted from Nicholas and Alexandra royalties. As he sees it, "Nobody won this thing, but I didn't lose...