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Carson will celebrate his 20th anniversary in customary fashion this Sunday, Oct. 3, with a two-hour special (NBC, 9-11 p.m. E.D.S.T.) that will feature the usual complement of comedy, conversation and glitz, along with video-taped glimpses at the family album. If a few things go wrong along the way, so much the better. Carson's comedy thrives on crisis. It is fueled by failure. Carson craves bad jokes. They are the rough sand he turns into pearls...
...York, Columbia's top executive, President Alan Hirschfield, expressed an emotion rare in Hollywood: shock. Although he loved the glamour and glitz of films-Hirschfield once broke his toe tripping over the edge of a Jacuzzi while staring at Actress Polly Bergen-he was, as colleagues observed, a classic "bottom-liner" who frowned on peccadilloes like theft and forgery. After a period of indecision, the Harvard-trained executive saw no other alternative: Begelman...
...such success that his company has already fielded a new video magazine, Health and Beauty Aids Insights. It will be strictly nuts-and-bolts stuff, however. Charney's Videofashion Monthly, with lots of quick clips of swirling models, distracted designers and discofied fashion shows, has already cornered the glitz...
...thoroughly captured and made over this little pocket of the present that when he decided not to show his new fall women's line during the semiannual glitz and giddiness known loosely as the Milan collections, he incurred the wrath of the press but walked off with the honors anyway. "Armani is the king of the Italian Alps," says Geraldine Stutz, president of the modish New York City department store Henri Bendel. The assorted princesses, princelings and pretenders scattered about the feudal fashion kingdom of Milan sent their models gadding down runways in all the latest...
...addition to the glitz and the glamour, the Tokyo show demonstrated some dazzling applications of modern electronics and semiconductor technology that make cars cheaper, safer and easier to drive. Japanese manufacturers are using computers on a chip to improve fuel economy, monitor the engine and even make a new electronically controlled transmission operate smoothly. Three separate companies exhibited an electronic map display mounted on the dashboard that points out the car's destination, gives instructions on the best route to follow and notes the progress of the trip...