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...Mart is based in the rolling Ozark hill country of Bentonville, Ark. (pop. 8,756). The sleepy mountain town was heretofore known chiefly as the birthplace of Louise McPhetridge Thaden, winner in 1929 of the first cross-country Powder Puff Air Derby for women aviators. Now it is famous as the home of Walton, an individualist who flies his own Piper Aztec, hunts quail, and is worth $500 million to $700 million...
...sweeping that many people in the industry viewed it as a deliberate rebuke of E.T. and Steven Spielberg, its creator, producer and director. Though he is only 35, Spielberg has directed four of the ten biggest money makers in Hollywood history, including, besides E.T, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Jaws and Close Encounters of the Third Kind. Yet neither he nor any of his pictures has ever won a major award...
...week regularity. No. 2 in the latest Nielsen ratings, the show has apparently propelled Selleck to movie stardom as well. His first feature film, High Road to China, displaced Tootsie as the box-office leader upon its release March 18. A lethargic imitation of Raiders of the Lost Ark, with a wild chase across Asia in '20s biplanes, High Road has little besides Selleck to recommend it. But that is enough for his fans...
...after a movie preview. "Better than Sound of Music." The object of this enthusiasm was Star!, which Goldman describes as "the Edsel of 20th Century-Fox." Success is equally impossible to foresee; the author rehearses the litany of studios that said no to Star Wars, Raiders of the Lost Ark...
...consumer and conservation lobby groups. Hart's "party unity" rating in 1981 was one of the highest among Senate Democrats, and exceeded that of other President aspirants Sen. Allen Cranston (D-Calif.), Sen. John Glenn (D-Ohio), Sen. Ernest F. Hollings (D-S.C.), and Sen. Dale Bumpers (D-Ark.). Indeed, Hart is the only one in this group who opposed both draft registration and the B-I bomber under the Carter Administration, and who voted consistently against the Reagan tax cuts and budget. (Bumpers, Glenn, and Hollings voted for the budget. Cranston and Glenn voted...