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...Warren Beatty observed that somebody ought to put in a good word for Ronald Reagan. All this earnestness was the work of Director William Friedkin, producer of the 49th Academy Awards presentation, who had ruled out all the traditional stuff that he felt had made filmdom's annual bash "tacky, like some Roman event." Beatrice Straight won Best Supporting Actress for her brief, intense role as a spurned wife in Network; Jason Robards got Best Supporting Actor for his crusty, sleeves-up portrayal of Washington Post Executive Editor Ben Bradlee in All the President...
...people there were Jewish, which I am too by birth and which attracted me there in the first place. They really attack people at their most vulnerable points. I'm really glad I was strong enough to get out. It is sick and awful and I'd like to bash their faces in. I only wish I had the strength to do something like Ted Patrick (a well-known deprogrammer) does. Becoming a Moonies is like committing suicide--but then, some people commit suicide," Eric concluded...
...sultan's palace. The guests at Washington's Iranian embassy, however, were not princes and potentates, but Artist Jamie Wyeth, HUD Secretary Patricia Harris, Fashion Doyenne Diana Vreeland and a hundred other partygoers invited to Ambassador Ardeshir Zahedi's Valentine's Night bash. The guest of honor: Pop Artist Andy Warhol, who earlier in the day had met President Carter at the White House. "Terrific, terrific," was Warhol's response to everything, including the centerpiece on the red satin tablecloth: a 3-ft. floral heart adorned with an oversized Campbell's Soup...
...remote-controlled by Moscow or the dissidents, however idealistic their motivation. Says a high-ranking Western diplomat in Moscow: "On the one hand, dissidents are undoubtedly helped by Washington's statements. Do they make Moscow more lenient? No, but they make it more difficult for the Soviets to bash Sakharov or send everyone to Siberia." On the other hand, it is difficult to link foreign policy and morality, because the Russians are proud, sensitive, somewhat paranoid and cannot be pushed too far. The diplomat continues: "Is it not immoral to jettison disarmament?" This is not likely to happen. Carter...
...sixth anniversary of the military coup that brought President Idi Amin Dada to power, and Big Daddy was ready to celebrate with the funkiest bash in East African history. In the reviewing stands at Kampala, a gaggle of Soviet Russians, Libyans, Cubans and representatives of the Palestine Liberation Organization sat mesmerized by the show. Uganda army bagpipers in Royal Stuart tartan kilts marched by implausibly tootling Scotland the Brave. Undaunted by the number of invitations declined-notably by Henry Kissinger -the 300-lb. dictator exuberantly grabbed a spear and joined dancers in a local variant of the jig. After...