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Palm Springs was as a health spa in Agua Caliente Indians claimed the area's deep mineral springs could cure tuberculosis. Later it became a quiet refuge for Hollywood stars. Other affluent families followed the entertainers, relishing the beauty of the desert and the steep mountains that tower above the resort on three sides. Air conditioning took the sting out of the 120° summer heat; cool nights and tangy mornings enticed the active residents into swimming pools and onto tennis courts and golf courses. But now Palm Springs is becoming overdeveloped and even turning a bit tacky in spots. Meanwhile...
DIED. Sam Spiegel, 84, independent Hollywood producer of the fast-talking, cigar-chomping mold, whose grand-scale, big-budget pictures of the 1950s and '60s, notably The African Queen (1951), On the Waterfront (1954), The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957) and Lawrence of Arabia (1962), won 23 Academy Awards, including three for best picture; in St. Martin, West Indies. Spiegel was a perfectionist who relentlessly drove his writers, directors and actors, but he commanded, or inveigled, loyalty: many who angrily quit his far-flung film sets at night were persuaded by morning to stay on. Born in what...
...Ashland gave me a sense of who I was and where I came from," says Naomi, who married young and had Wynonna at 18. In 1968 she left Kentucky for the West Coast, where she modeled, worked as a secretary and managed a health-food store in West Hollywood, all the while proudly holding on to her lineage. "What's your sign?" someone would ask her. The reply was simply "Baptist." After a divorce and two prolonged stints in California, Naomi, Wynonna and Younger Daughter Ashley headed home for good. Ask Wynonna what the Judds' music would have been like...
Cheap? Menahem Golan and Yoram Globus know about cheap. Some people in Hollywood and other places where movies are made even believe the word was coined for the "Go-Go Boys," as the two Israeli cousins who run the Cannon Group are commonly called. That is not the case, although it is true that their idea of a power lunch is not Le Dome but a salami sandwich at their desks. It is also true that their headquarters on Sunset Boulevard has all the glamour of a discount electronics warehouse, with overflowing wastebaskets, well-scuffed walls and an assortment...
...sounds very much like last summer's TWA hijacking, which caused the production schedule to be speeded up. But in the much improved Cannon version, the good guys win, and the bad guys are sent to their proper, bloody reward. Golan, 56, and Globus, 42, follow what was once Hollywood's golden rule: audiences love happy endings...