Word: chic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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That beauty in the chic safari hat and Paris finery is Actress Ursula Andress, 40, on location in Rhodesia, for her new film Safari Express. A comedy spoof of 1950s jungle pictures, the movie shows Ursula as a geologist's assistant who karate-chops her way back to civilization while mussing nary a hair. On the screen, that is. "I worked like hell," protests the actress. "All that fighting! I think I am going to send them a bill as a stunt woman." After similar exertions last year in a sister film (African Express), Andress just might fall victim...
...idea for the ponderous pendants was dreamed up "as a lark" by Marsten, her Caveat Emptor partner Richard Neibaur and Illustrator John Johnson. They call their creations throwaway chic, but at $2.50 each, the necklaces are no giveaway. Still, Bonwit Teller, Jordan Marsh and Filene's of Boston, among other stores, have placed orders, suggesting that the eggplant-size paper rocks will be at least as much of a hit on the party circuit this fall as, say, pet rocks were last year. In fact, orders are pouring in so fast that the ersatz emeralds, diamonds and rubies...
...Harder They Come Now that reggae has made the cover of the Rolling Stone and is no longer the exclusive province of the chic, maybe this Jimmy Cliff "country hick to shantytown to bigtime to rubout" regional novel of a flick will make it beyond the cult who love it already. You can see it if you really want...
James Kassouf is perpetually harassed these days. He is manager of the Beirut Restaurant in London's chic Knightsbridge, and this summer his phone is forever ringing with the news that some Kuwaiti sheik or Saudi princess has just left Harrods and was last seen heading for the restaurant for coffee and mouhallabiya. Kassouf and his staff are caught smack in the middle of an Arab invasion that makes the drought-dry London streets look almost like Cairo...
...classé: too expensive ($12 minimum, $4 a drink), too loud, too ... well, last year. The new place to gawk and be groped is Regine's, in the Delmonico Hotel (Park Ave. and 59th St.), which is just as loud, pricy and up-to-the-second in chic. A cover charge of $10 (plus from $3 to $6 a drink) buys you the privilege of rubbernecking as the celebs make grand entrances on the long center staircase, boogying on the illuminated Plexiglas dance floor and maybe getting snooted by Regine herself...