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When Ricardo Montalban, 61, the courtly Mr. Roarke of TV's Fantasy Island, goes home and hangs up his impeccably pressed white suit, what does a man who caters to dreams change into? Perhaps his own fantasy is to doff his fastidious mien, let his hair sprout, and lounge around in the tattered haute couture of an intergalactic hitchhiker? In Paramount's $10 million space epic Star Trek II, Montalban does just that. He plays the diabolic Khan, a villainous android who escapes exile on a nightmarish planet but not the embraces of two comely space maidens...
While wary and a bit wondering, executives abroad are hopeful, even enthusiastic, about the stability and sympathy for their problems that a Reagan Administration promises. They might not order the band to play Hail to the Chief for Reagan just yet. But the new President would surely get a doff of their hats-or even a toast of Dom Pérignon-if he would be more insistent that allied political leaders be firmerin meeting defense needs and cooperate more among themselves, even as businessmen have learned...
...often at his desk by 6:45 a.m., and ends the day at 8 or 9 p.m., after eating dinner alone at his desk. His only break is for lunch. Sometimes Soviet Ambassador Anatoli Dobrynin, the only ambassador so favored, comes by for a noontime sandwich. The two doff their coats and eat at a small round table in Brzezinski's office. Essentially a loner with few real friends in the Administration, Brzezinski spends little time with cronies. He sometimes plays doubles tennis against Jimmy Carter, who is usually on the winning side...
...across the carved faces on Mount Rushmore. Hitchcock himself jaunts onto the screen in the opening minutes, his belly pulling up to and bouncing off the closing door of a bus. He knew what a brilliant film he had constructed, and he wasn't above giving himself a little doff...
...across the carved faces on Mount Rushmore. Hitchcock himself jaunts onto the screen in the opening minutes, his belly pulling up to and bouncing off the closing door of a bus. He knew what a brilliant film he had constructed, and he wasn't above giving himself a little doff of the chapeau...