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...late afternoon at Canyon Ranch, "America's first total vacation/fitness resort." The sun slants across the roofs of the patio homes strung out across the desert, tinting the Santa Catalina Mountains, lengthening the shadows of the giant saguaro cacti...
...days of filming. On a weekend hiatus, Wood, Husband Robert Wagner (star of TV's Hart to Hart) and her leading man-sallow and rangy Christopher Walken, 38-headed for the sea. They relaxed aboard the Wagners' 60-ft. yacht Splendour, moored in a cove off Santa Catalina Island, 22 miles from the Los Angeles shore. On Saturday afternoon they motored the 100 yds. to the island in a 10-ft. dinghy. They had drinks and dinner at an island restaurant, and six hours later-after four bottles of wine and two of champagne-the Wagners, Walken...
Wood's death was touched by sad irony. She and Wagner were married on a boat off Catalina. But for Wood, the good life at sea must have held some menace. "I'm frightened to death of the water," she said in a recent interview. "I can swim a little bit, but I'm afraid of water that is dark...
DIED. Natalie Wood, 43, radiant movie actress who appeared in 45 films and won three Academy Award nominations; of accidental drowning; off Santa Catalina Island, Calif, (see NATION...
...imposed isolation at the end of the 19th century, Japan proved all but invincible. With no country in the area strong enough to stand in its way, Tokyo gained its present domination over the Pacific, invading the Hawaiian Islands in 1910 and forcing a weak Mexico to cede the Catalina Islands, off the coast of Southern California, in 1913. Santa Catalina is now the Japanese Hong Kong, a center of industrial activity whose smoggy air often fouls the otherwise clear skies of sleepy Los Angeles. Defeated by Japan at the Battle of Tsushima Strait in 1905, Russia was forced...