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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...program. It was filmed at an actual charity benefit for the Children's Diabetes Foundation. During the big party scene, Ford and Wife Betty meet Blake and Krystle Carrington (John Forsythe and Linda Evans), and Kissinger exchanges greetings with Krystle's nemesis, Alexis (Joan Collins). Will Blake charm Jerry into a profitable business deal? Will the scheming Alexis wrap Henry around her little finger? Or vice versa. Don't bother to tune in for the following episode. It was a one-shot deal for the former White House thespians...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Dec. 19, 1983 | 12/19/1983 | See Source »

...year-two for haute couture, two for Rive Gauche-for a quarter of a century would seem to justify a sabbatical, but Saint Laurent does not take that option. Karl Lagerfeld blames the designer's inner circle for his misery: "I think back 20 years and remember his charm, his laugh. That entourage has managed to convince him that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: The Designer at Home | 12/12/1983 | See Source »

...friends to play the silent parts...the work was performed a few times in Amsterdam and played to packed houses. The first evening, however, I'd completely forgotten to arrange for lighting, so the audience saw very little." His career must have been launched by, among other talents, colonial charm...

Author: By Sophie A. Volpp, | Title: No Answers | 12/6/1983 | See Source »

...story opens, things do not look bright for May Alto. Harry, a second husband with the boyish charm and mental age of a 14-year-old, has just left her for "...this girl." Subsisting on codeine and Seconal, she is nursing an arm slashed in a mugging for $12 and a cheap tape recorder. She is the sole supporter of three children going through various phases of adolescent trauma. A ghostwriter, May writes books to order, bringing glory to a slew of semi-literate literary celebrities in return for modest cash rewards. To keep herself entertained, she intertwines the stories...

Author: By Hanne-maria Maiiala, | Title: Savagery Pays Off | 12/6/1983 | See Source »

...vision. Manny has a modest, ranch-house version: "I'd like my own blue jeans with my name written on chicks' asses." Not Tony; he thinks big. "I want what's comin' to me-the world an' everything in it." With equal measures of charm and cojones, Tony will get to live out his Hollywood gangster scenario of underworld power, finally earning a couple hundred million a year as the coke czar of South Florida. And then, like any penny-ante public enemy who ever lurched across the big screen, Tony Montana will get what...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Say Good Night to the Bad Guy | 12/5/1983 | See Source »

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