Word: fame
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Born. To James Taylor, 29, and Carly Simon, 32, of pop fame: their second child and first son; in Manhattan. Name: Benjamin Simon. The birth was tape-recorded and preserved on Polaroid film...
President Ford has a handicap estimated at 16 and is often known to play a Sunday breakfast round with other politicos at Washington's all-male Burning Tree golf club. Ford belted a drive further than Arnold Palmer at the opening ceremonies of the World Gold Hall of Fame and teamed with Jack Nicklaus in the Jackie Geason pro-am. Former presidents Nixon and Eisenhower were also avid golfers while in the oval office. The switch from gold to fishing in the White House signals a deep-rooted transition in the national temperament. The country is already heading in more...
...happens to know them, perhaps to Jon Peters and Barbara Streisand, producers of that weighty saga of show biz A Star Is Born. Dancer-Actress Lesley Ann Warren has done just that. A veteran of Broadway and such television series as Mission: Impossible, Warren is aiming for bigger fame in a "hot, sexy" song-and-dance act that opens this week in Los Angeles. Streisand has been bolstering Warren's courage with almost daily pep talks ("Get out on that stage, take a deep breath and do what you believe"), while Peters has been giving advice on such things...
...album "Melba," produced by none other than disco Van McCoy. Speaking of disco, the Jazz workship has Dexter Wansel in this weekend. Wansel is right out of The Sound of Philadelphia studios, and carries with him the high recommendation of Ken Camble, of Camble and Huff fame (the O'Jays). The strange thing about this Philly International date is that Jean Carn, who used to do some nice jazz with Doug Carn, will be playing with Wansel and his Planets. Maybe people at the workshop think they can attract both the jazz and the disco crowd by including some nice...
That is something one might consider while watching Super Night II and Super Bowl XI. Sports stars are young, sometimes heady with fame and often terrified lest it vanish. Jimmy Connors won half a dozen tennis classics invented by his agent. But after we came to know Connors well on television, he was no longer much of a hero. He and his agent then split. The trend toward the athlete as superhero may work for a few, but carried too far it will selfdestruct. The stars themselves, not Louis B. Mayer, killed the star system in Hollywood...