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...bride arrived 45 minutes late for her wedding, but that was the only time wasted in the speedy romance between Greek Shipping Heiress Christina Onassis, 24, and Banking Heir Alexander Andreadis, 30. After a one-month acquaintance and a week-long engagement, the couple had come to be wed in the Greek seaside town of Glyphada. While a score of family members -including Stepmother Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis and her son John -crowded together in the tiny chapel of Aiksonis, an exquisite recreation of a Byzantine monastery, Christina and Alexander repeated the vows of the Greek Orthodox Church, made the traditional...
Moreover, Alexander's conservative, family-oriented life-style may seem especially appealing to the long unsettled heiress. After her mother, Tina Livanos, divorced Ari in 1960 because of his affair with Opera Singer Maria Callas, Christina quickly grew into a child of the jetset. "She was given far too much money-a bad mistake. All she had to do was spend," observes Baron Arnaud de Rosnay, who has known Christina since she was eleven. "She has one of the strongest personalities I have encountered in a woman. She wanted to be someone on her own and couldn...
...more item to Heiress-Artist Gloria Vanderbilt's list of keep-busy projects. After trying her touch at painting, fabric design and collages in recent years, Gloria, 51, now hopes to market some of her artistic know-how in a new magazine. The quarterly, which is modestly called Gloria Vanderbilt Designs for Your Home, promises to supply how-to tips in painting, crochet, needlepoint, embroidery, quilting, knitting, rug making, sewing and other skills for ambitious homemakers. All of which may help even Creative Director Vanderbilt to pick up a new stitch or two. "I haven't a clue...
...film is a bewilderingly thrown-together comedy about two indigent idiots who try to swindle a young heiress out of her money. Nicky (Beatty), the tall poker-faced one, has seduced and eloped with the heiress while waiting for his divorce to come through. His pal Oscar (Nicholson), the short goofy one, marries her instead to make the theft legal, and they smuggle her off to California to wait for her 21st birthday. While they are busy making inept plans, the audience has time to notice what a fortune Nichols has already stolen: characterization from Laurel and Hardy, a plot...
...wealth is temporarily resolved. Kind Hearts and Coronets, the famous British film comedy on the same theme, is in fact so moralistic that in the end nobody wins out, everyone having been clearly shown the error of his greedy ways. Nichols tampers fatally with the format by making the heiress the one who wants to give it all away, and the two men selfish dopes who don't deserve the money but apparently get it anyway. The moral simplicity of the tale is so distorted, and its punch so diluted, that we end up disgusted with the heroes and indifferent...