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Will young Jodie go through with his sex-change operation and marry a football player? Will Cousin Corinne continue bedding down the local tennis pro, despite hard-breathing competition from her mother? Will Father Flotsky modernize the Mass by substituting Oreo cookies for the traditional wafers? And will Soap, the new ABC comedy that features all these characters, be a TV sensation this September...
...Auchincloss ("My father is Jacqueline Kennedy's stepfather's first cousin") is to the novel-of-manners born. Credentials include Groton, Yale, U S Navy and Wall Street, where the 59-year-old author is an estates and trusts lawyer. What better perch from which to observe human nature. Matters can be hidden from a psychoanalyst that can never be hidden from the man who draws up one's will. Perhaps because they usually survive to become the inheritors, women have been especially strong characters in Auchincloss's fiction. "After the age of about...
...wearing contemporary fashions. He seems similarly uninterested in the subtleties of character portrayal and opts instead for hackneyed gestures and poses from his cast. The stars of the movie are Susan Srandon, John Beck and Marie-France Pisier. Pisier, who plays Noelle, was lauded for her role in Cousin, Cousine, but the script is so thin there is little that she can do in this film. Pisier looks winsome, haughty or sultry as the occasion demands and tosses her hair back a lot (it's supposed to be sexy) in a fair imitation of the Breck shampoo girl...
Died. John Stuart Martin, 76, former TIME Managing Editor; after a long illness; in Phillipsburg, N.J. A cousin of TIME Co-Founder Briton Hadden, Martin became Managing Editor when Hadden died suddenly in 1929. A demanding stylist who held that TIME should be written from the point of view of "the man in the moon at the end of the current century," Martin in his long career also worked on LIFE and FORTUNE, wrote books and the narration for the film The Fighting Lady...
Family Pact. The struggle pits Hughes' first cousin, Houston Lawyer William Rice Lummis (pronounced Lumm-us), 48, against Chester Davis, 66, the Wall Street in-fighter who in 1973 finally won the twelve-year TWA antitrust suit for Hughes and became a major power within Summa. At stake is what remains of Hughes' fortune, estimated to have been as high as $1.8 billion in the late 1960s (excluding Hughes Aircraft Co.) but now assessed by Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith at no more than $168 million. If no will is found, Lummis, who is the court-appointed temporary...