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...reminiscences in halting English, Russian and German and, as at the original meeting, in sign language. Souvenir dollars were exchanged for souvenir rubles as they had been in April 1945, and toasts were offered at a lunch in Torgau's District Culture House. Though the spirit of wartime friendship was briefly recaptured, present reality intruded. The U.S. Government boycotted the event to show its displeasure over the fatal shooting in East Germany in March of U.S. Army Major Arthur Nicholson by a Soviet sentry and over Moscow's refusal to accept blame for the incident. As a result, there...
HEARTBREAKERS IS A SMART, intriguing film about men male ambition, last, fantasy and love--projected onto the widescreen of male friendship. Writer-director Bobby Roth explores the treacherous every man's zone between comradeship and rivals in the lifelong friendship of roughish artist. Arthur Blue (Peter Coyote) and staid businessman Eli Kahn (Nick Mancuso). Unfortunately for Roth's thirty-five year old heroes, three women keep coming between Blue and Eli, tangling up the friends' good intentions and bringing out their competitive worst...
...which were stolen from Hughes' Los Angeles headquarters on June 5, 1974, including about 3000 of the hand-written memos through which Hughes conducted all of his business. After the L.A. Police Department, the FBI and the CIA gave up their investigation of the crime, Drosnin, by winning the friendship of the burglar who led the heist, finally got his hands on the billionaire's dirty laundry. And for seven years, Drosnin lived underground as "Michael Howard," poring over the revealing documents, interviewing dozens of sources, and assembling the chronicle of, as he puts it. "How Howard Hughes tried...
...Seattle lawyer, was surprised to find that an old friend in France had become somewhat chilly. "He constantly made digs about how the artificially high rate of the dollar was ruining the franc and the French economy," says Lawson. "I'd definitely say the high dollar has hindered our ! friendship." A Los Angeles sales-promotion executive, Vicki Carr, experienced some hostility in Britain about lavish American spending on luxuries that Britons can ill afford. Says she: "In the past I felt Londoners were very, very friendly. This year they were not that helpful, not that willing. I felt antagonism...
Even when she's not scrapping out on the court, Kaufman can be counted on for her friendship. "Everybody just feels so much closer to her than anyone else on the team, Vigna says...