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...anyway," retorts Vahit Sapir, president of Starline Sightseeing Tours. "If they don't go by bus, they'll go by car, get out and walk, knock on doors. It'll be worse." While continuing their lawsuit, the companies have rerouted their buses to nearby Bel Air to allow the star-struck to look for such celebrities as Burt Reynolds, Barbra Streisand or Gregory Peck...
Last summer, after the U.S. movie industry had begun its rebound from a 214-year slump to record the biggest box-office grosses in its history, the story was front-page news and real tinsel was flying from every flagpole in Bel Air. This summer the lines outside movie theaters are even longer, but nobody seems to be shouting. The industry appears so robust that its latest gains are almost unremarkable. According to Variety, ticket sales were up 10.5% for the month of July, and about 9% for the year so far, over comparable 1982 figures...
...possibility of Julius' receiving the maximum sentence. But despite the rumors in the newspapers, Ethel's sentence came as a terrible shock ... Visibly shaken and ashen-faced ... Ethel had tried to bolster her own and her husband's spirits by singing the aria Un bel di from Madame Butterfly in a clear though tremulous voice. Julius, no musician, had responded with The Battle Hymn of the Republic, a brave if rather grimly impersonal answer to Puccini's aria of love and longing...
...accessories: vases, teapots, spaghetti sets and "sandwich humidors," all buffed to a pewter sheen. In a burst of breathless feature stories on informal entertaining and other trends, Wright was hailed as an innovator. He was catapulted to the top of the new profession of industrial design along with Norman Bel Geddes, Walter Dorwin Teague, Donald Deskey, Raymond Loewy and Henry Dreyfuss...
...Young Americans, was co-written with John Lennon and Carlos Alomar; the result, besides being Bowie's biggest single up till then, has a good claim to being the first breakthrough disco song. By 1975 he was living in Los Angeles, in a vast rented house in Bel Air, keeping company with dabblers in black magic and refusing to see his old friends. One of them, who managed to penetrate his defenses, recalls watching Bowie work his way through a long night of coke madness, then say, almost to himself, "I'll probably end up like Terry...