Word: flings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Then there's Megan, central, unifying character that she is. A brief fling with a transplanted preppie while she's a California high school student drives her East, to the very place where he's in med school--you guessed it. She learns--the hard way, of course--the differences between bad girls and good girls, and goes about relieving herself of what she thinks of an her "technical virgin" status with every imaginable unacceptable type she runs across, including a Jewish "section man" and a Black jazz musician. She makes friends with a Jewish girls who winds up marrying...
...original 10, Bo Derek, 27, and directed by Husband John Derek, 58, might never be released. The reason: Israeli Executive Producers Menahem Golan and Yoram Globus, who sank $7 million into the film, and MGM/UA, the studio set to distribute it, found the story of Bo's fling with a seemingly impotent Spanish bullfighter overstacked with single entendres. The Dereks were asked to cut some of the steamier scenes in order to avoid an X rating, and they snipped ten minutes of dialogue. After a compromise deal the film opened last week nationwide with a righteous 17-and-older...
Though Telling's income is now elite ($1.4 million last year), his values remain middle class. He buys his dark gray suits from Sears and loves to fling open his jacket to flash the label. In fact, the only part of his wardrobe not from Sears is shoes. Reason: his 13 A size is too rare for his stores to keep in stock. Telling's only ostentation is that he often rides to work from his home in Northbrook, Ill., in a company limousine or sometimes drives himself in a sleek black Jaguar. He defensively points out that...
...reading, Reve finds himself followed by a devastatingly poised, icy blonde with a film camera. When she propositions him. Reve accepts, just as coolly--because he has nothing better to do, or because he doesn't like hotels, the depth of his motivation is anyone's guess. The fling picks up momentum only when Gerard finds a picture of the young man he'd missed on the previous day on Christine's desk. The man, it turns out, is her long-distance lover Reve is elated: megalomania becomes monomania, as he schemes and manipulates Christine into inviting...
FICTION 1. The Aquitaine Progression, Ludlum (1 last week) 2. The Haj, Uris (2) 3. Heretics of Dune, Herbert (3) 4. The Butter Battle Book, Seuss (4) 5. Warday, Strieberand Kunetka (5) 6. Pet Sematary, King (6) 7. Descent from Xanadu, Robbins (7) 8. Fling, Beck and Massman 9. Smart Women, Blume (9) 10. The Danger, Francis...