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...operation might have been torn from the pages of the Little Drummer Girl, John le Carré's Middle Eastern thriller. Three young Palestinian terrorists slip across the Lebanese border into Israel, where a man with a Lebanese passport and a woman with one from the U.S. supply them with weapons. Then, on a sunny morning last week, the three drive a rented red Autobianchi up crowded King George V Street in West Jerusalem. Two of them enter a sporting-goods store and, in Arab-accented English, nervously ask to try on some jeans...
Marvin Gaye, just like Diana Ross, the Temptations, Smokey Robinson and Stevie Wonder, had a special right to carry the Motown torch. Hired as a drummer for Smokey Robinson, Gaye instantly began a career as a soloist that culminated in his rise as one of the first Motown stars daring to criticize the Establishment. He challenged the war with "What's Going On?," lashed out at pollution with "Mercy, Mercy Me," and called for hope by recording, with Tammi Terrell, the Ashford and Simpson hit "Ain't No Mountain High Enough." His songs also influenced later white artists; the Rolling...
BOWIE HIMSELF did more than 300 concerts in 1983 alone. Aside from the AEC, he travelled with Roots to the Source, a band made up of his ex-wife Fontella Bass, her gospel singing mother Martha, and brother David Peaston, along with drummer Philip Wilson (an old pal), and Chicago based saxophonist Ari Brown. Bowie also formed the new Brass Fantasy group from the core of the New York Hot Trumpet Repertory Company, and he plans to record with them at the end of this summer...
...tireless quest for realism, Hollywood has already used the war-torn Middle East as a backdrop for such films as Hanna K. starring Jill Clayburgh, and the recently completed The Ambassador, starring Robert Mitchum and Rock Hudson. Now comes The Little Drummer Girl, which was shot on the barren hills of the Israeli-occupied West Bank. Based on John le Carré's best-selling novel, the movie stars Diane Keaton, 38, as Charlie, an impressionable English actress who is recruited by Israeli intelligence for a double-agent mission against Palestinian terrorists. Keaton trained with a bazooka...
DIED. Dennis Wilson, 39, boisterous, handsome drummer, keyboardist and singer of California's enduring rock-'n'-roll band the Beach Boys; of accidental drowning when he dived off a boat slip into 12 ft. of water; in Marina Del Rey, Calif. Wilson, the Beach Boys' only genuine surfer, named the upbeat, harmonizing quintet that since 1961 has glorified the sea, the sun, teen love and cars in such hits as Good Vibrations, California Girls and Surfin' U.S.A. Although Wilson often feuded with other group members, he was on board for the satisfying moment last summer...