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...plays Lee Winters, a former film star and the widowed heiress to a petrochemical empire. He portrays Hub Smith, a gutsy, maverick banker and corporate troubleshooter. Together they embark on a daring financial scheme with, you guessed it, international repercussions. The plot for the film Rollover, due to be released in December, is made even more intriguing by the presence of Co-Stars Jane Fonda (The China Syndrome, Coming Home) and Kris Kristofferson (A Star Is Born; and this week's re-released Heaven's Gate), who do not ordinarily play corporate types. Still, the actress came prepared...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Apr. 27, 1981 | 4/27/1981 | See Source »

...works. "A slip of the lip can sink a ship," replied Carey, "and I don't intend for my ship to sink." The lip slipped later in the week on the subject of U.S.-made automobiles. Disposable "Rleenex cars," he called them. Former Girlfriend and Ford Motor Heiress Anne Ford Uzielli would not have liked that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Apr. 6, 1981 | 4/6/1981 | See Source »

...gathering legal onslaught is reminiscent of the mid-1950s, when lawsuits, particularly those by Robert Mitchum and Heiress Doris Duke, severely dampened Confidential magazine's penchant for unfounded gossip. Confidential's circulation plummeted from 4.1 million to about 300,000, and the magazine folded in 1969. The Enquirer boasts that the Burnett case is the first libel trial since Generoso Pope Jr. bought the tabloid in 1952. But that is because it occasionally settles out of court...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: A Five-Year Legal Toothache | 3/23/1981 | See Source »

...rake of renown, Plume stirs the love of Silvia (Laurie Kennedy), who disguises herself in male uniform and eventually hooks him. Plume's best friend, Mr. Worthy (Frank Maraden), is led a mad matrimonial chase by a haughty heiress named Melinda, played in an impish comic vein by Laura Esterman. Bumpkins, worldlings, gulls and wits populate the evening. Toward the end of the play, it becomes evident that Plume is not a womanizing gourmand, as he pretends to the world, but a moonstruck child of sentiment who has found in the chaste but frolicsome Silvia his true heart...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Rake's Reform THE RECRUITING OFFICER | 2/2/1981 | See Source »

...Deneuve's date, Actor-Singer-Director Serge Gainsbourg, came to the ball uncombed, sans tie and wearing a scruffy 9 o'clock shadow. But then, the ex-love of Actress Jane Birkin is known for being defiantly négligé, despite the company he keeps. Cartier Heiress and Chairman Nathalie Hocq, 29, personally arranged the intimate dinner for 879 and subsequent party for 1,500, chartering eight Mystère-Falcon 20 jets to transport jet-setters to Paris from seven foreign cities. "This party represents the antithesis of disco," proclaimed the proud hostess. "It symbolizes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Nov. 10, 1980 | 11/10/1980 | See Source »

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