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Since leaving Saturday Night Chase, 33, has acquired both a California tan and a new wife. She is Jacqueline Carlin, 28, a TV actress who is no relation to Comedian George Carlin, says Chevy, "except for the beard." Despite the couple's hideaway in the Hollywood hills, Chase is homesick for New York City. "I came out in October and I've been here four years," he grumbled about L.A. "There is no input from anything but show biz out here. I feel like the brain starts to atrophy...
Other couples, meanwhile, have made some connubial plans of their own. Chevy Chase, 33, who recently quit his job as Saturday Night funnyman to create TV specials for NBC, will marry in December. His bride-to-be: Actress-Model Jacqueline Carlin, 27, whom he met two years ago. Swedish Tennis Star Bjorn Borg, 20, has exchanged engagement rings with Mariana Simionescu, 19, Rumania's second-ranked woman tennis player until her defection to the U.S. this month. Tennis groupies, take heart. Mariana reports that she and this year's Wimbledon singles champ have not yet set a date...
Nicholas A. Carlin '77-2, who called himself a "veteran of People's Park" in Berkeley, said, "It's really a trip," but added, "We should have invited all sorts of Cambridge people here...
...Chanel No. 5 ad which ended with a perfume bottle stuck to Guest Host Candice Bergen's head. A lot depends on the guest hosts who change each week and around whom an entire show is written. Among the first tapped by Michaels were Comedian George Carlin and Actor Rob Reiner. Says Reiner: "I didn't care if the show fell flat on its ass. TV needed it." He adds: "It's like an express train that no one can stop. You just have to hop aboard and hope it won't crash...
...most endearing and human quality is its unevenness. Guest hosts participate in the sketches themselves and some write their own jokes too. Carlin set the pace on his, the first show, with a line that would make prime-time programmers blanch: "God can't be perfect; everything he makes dies." By the time Lily Tomlin came on to host the fifth show, SN had a cult following. She made it a smash, her double-edged style and swift undercuts setting off SN's frenzied variety. Suddenly, everyone wanted to act as host: Richard Pryor, Elliott Gould, Buck Henry...