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...Lanchester parts than Sir Ralph Richardson, 79, and Deborah Kerr, 61? Kerr's role in the Hallmark Hall of Fame presentation next month on CBS is a departure from the oh-so-proper image that she usually projects. Says she: "Playing a bossy nurse to a tempestuous old gentleman is much more fun than playing glamorous women." And, as Richardson would surely add, a good deal more fun for the old gentleman...
Ironically, the autumn product slump comes toward the end of a record-breaking year for Hollywood: a $2.9 billion gross take so far, up 16% from last year. With summer smashes like E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial ($290 million) and An Officer and a Gentleman ($91 million) still going strong, studio bosses may have been reluctant to introduce new products. They may also be wary of making too many movies, what with the average budget today running in excess of $10 million. Says Producer Irwin Winkler: "In 1976 I made Rocky for $ 1 million. Today, even if the actors' salaries...
...unlocking the door, the passenger, who is also the owner of the house, murmurs apologies. "My dear fellow, I'm so sorry. Were you waiting long? I was having lunch with my agent, and I had a drink, which I'm not supposed to do." An elderly gentleman in gray-green country tweeds and brown suede shoes, he rolls his eyes, as if he is sharing a dark and wicked secret, and wraps his visitor in a furry mantle of charm. Even on a first encounter, Laurence Olivier has, as one of his friends observes, a gift...
...cause her incalculable agonies. Initially, though, it was sexual jealousy that provided the sorrow. After the divorce, there seemed little to hold the baroness in Africa-except Denys Finch Hatton. A romantic British figure out of a silent movie, he was a World War I veteran, pilot, expatriate and gentleman farmer. She became pregnant by him and miscarried. Four years later the lovers quarreled ferociously. A few days afterward, Denys died in a plane accident near Nairobi. There seemed nothing left of Karen's life but recollected griefs: she decided to put them between cloth covers...
Asked what he thought Glashow's response to Texas A&M was, Vandiver said, "Mr. Glashow is a very genial, amiable, cosmopolitan gentleman and he only gives away what he wants to give away...