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Other couples, meanwhile, have made some connubial plans of their own. Chevy Chase, 33, who recently quit his job as Saturday Night funnyman to create TV specials for NBC, will marry in December. His bride-to-be: Actress-Model Jacqueline Carlin, 27, whom he met two years ago. Swedish Tennis Star Bjorn Borg, 20, has exchanged engagement rings with Mariana Simionescu, 19, Rumania's second-ranked woman tennis player until her defection to the U.S. this month. Tennis groupies, take heart. Mariana reports that she and this year's Wimbledon singles champ have not yet set a date...
...said Columnist Art Buehwald, "so I gave some drunk a half-pint of whisky and got him to sign my papers as my father." Last week Buchwald was given the "Runaway of the Year" award-predated to 1942-by the Special Approaches in Juvenile Assistance Board. The funnyman allowed as how he had only one regret: "The old drunk who patriotically gave me to his country" was not on hand for the occasion. Unlike a journalist, Art wasn't writing down the name and address that...
...needs. The questionable poem was written more than 40 years ago by Joseph Moncure March, another of whose works was the basis for Robert Wise's excellent film about small-time boxing, The Set-Up (1948). It recounts the sad, eventually violent doings at the home of Funnyman Jolly Grimm (James Coco), whose career as a silent-film star has suffered from the coming of sound. After a five-year absence, Jolly is staging the world première of his. new comedy and inviting everyone to his Hollywood mansion. Doug and Mary are having a do over...
...Funnyman Flip Wilson might just be the biggest thing to hit Boley, Okla. (pop. 500) since the dust storms of the 1930s. When the town adopted the TV comedian as its honorary police chief last February, Wilson promised to contribute $10,000 for a new swimming pool. Last week he came to deliver. "We've got a $5,000 check for a police car," proclaimed Wilson during festivities for the town's 70th anniversary, "and now we're going to start working on $22,000 for a fire truck." Great, but what about the pool? "He wanted...
Like many other successful comics, he does not like to be taken lightly. When critics panned his first movie, The Producers, Brooks claimed "bleeding wounds for two years." Today he insists that he, more than Woody Allen, is the funnyman's intellectual. "I don't want to make just another movie," he says. "I want to make trouble. I want to say in comic terms, 'J'accuse. 'We dealt with bigotry in Saddles and with neo-Fascism in Producers. Underneath the comedy in Frankenstein, the doctor is undertaking the quest to defeat death-to challenge...