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...exactly midnight, chant this Herbert Albert Laurens Fisher quote in forced iambic pentameter: All political decisions are taken under great pressure, and if a treaty serves its turn for ten or twenty years, the wisdom of its framers is sufficiently confirmed...
...Debbie before she dies." But the star of Singin' in the Rain, Tammy and the Bachelor, The Unsinkable Molly Brown and some messy '50s headlines ain't down yet. And she ain't just cute. There's a platinum will under her blond perm (as her daughter Carrie Fisher suggested in the fond, acerbic novel and film Postcards from the Edge). And there's a vision in Debbie's show-biz heart--a vision that looks back to the movies' glory days, from the '20s through the '60s. Who else has built and stocked her own Hollywood museum...
...booty Reynolds has collected from other auctions and such friends as Ginger Rogers and Cyd Charisse, Ann Miller and Ann-Margret. Debbie even pays tribute to an ex-friend: in the theater is a Cleopatra headdress worn by Elizabeth Taylor, who seduced and married Debbie's first husband, Eddie Fisher. It's all grist for Debbie's sweet obsession; she now has some 3,000 pieces. "Passionate collectors," she notes, "don't become unpassionate." When she divorced shoe magnate Harry Karl in 1973, she says, "he wanted me to sell my movie stuff and give him half the money...
...should be glad she kept both, for this mom-and-pop operation is really a mom-and-son. Carrie's younger brother Todd Fisher, 37, is the museum's multimedia mastermind and Reynolds' main support in her adventure. "Debbie's dream was contagious, and I caught the disease," says Fisher. "At one point she asked me, 'How can you take two years out of your life?' And I said, 'How could you take 18 years out of yours?' I figure it's a fair trade...
SATAN certainly landed with a crash. Within minutes of its release, traffic started to pile up on the dozen or so computers around the world that Farmer had authorized as SATAN release sites. "Everyone was grabbing SATAN at once," says John Fisher, a computer-security specialist at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, one of several sites that became overloaded in the crush. Two days after satan was unleashed, tens of thousands of copies had been downloaded...