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...part human, part fish. For her next role, Hannah has moved up a few rungs on the evolutionary ladder. In The Clan of the Cave Bear, now filming in northwestern Canada, Hannah portrays a young Cro-Magnon girl adopted by a tribe of less developed Neanderthals. Based on Jean Auel's bestselling novel, the movie, due next summer, will strive for authenticity, a fact that Hannah finds chilling. "They drop us in the middle of a glacier, and we're dressed in skins." Hannah was also cool about the wearing of animal pelts ("I'm sort...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Sep. 3, 1984 | 9/3/1984 | See Source »

This book, published in France four years ago, has a radically different setting the working-class world of a grim little town outside Lille, and the author has been lectured by French critics for attempting it. She borrowed the plot from a 1965 short story by Jean Hougron, who brought suit against her; Sagan won the case on appeal. The outline is familiar maybe even a bit hoary: Gueret, a downtrodden bookkeeper, despised by his bosses and his landlady, stumbles upon a cache of jewels. They were lost in the course of a murder, which Gueret did not commit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Pinched Minds | 9/3/1984 | See Source »

These erotic scenes, replayed in countless variations by such academic painters as France's Jean-Léon Gérôme and England's John Frederick Lewis, kept the crowds coming to the shows organized by the Academic des Beaux-Arts in Paris and the Royal Academy in London. By the turn of the 20th century a host of French and English artists, and a few venturesome Americans, had been drawn by the lure of "the Orient": a term that then denoted not the Far East but the Middle East and North Africa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Lured by the Exotic East | 9/3/1984 | See Source »

...Jean Brown is the attendant from 2 a.m. to 10 a.m., and she knows what to say: "You keep a positive outlook. Don't give up. Keep faith in yourself. You never know when Mr. Right will show...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Las Vegas: Working Hard for the Money | 8/27/1984 | See Source »

FORTUNE 500 companies on merchandising strategies and manages the business affairs of athletes and other celebrities. Some of McCormack's clients: Tennis Stars Martina Navratilova and Chris Evert Lloyd, Ski Champ Jean-Claude Killy, baseball's Jim Rice, and Hank Ketcham, the creator of Dennis the Menace. Officials of the Wimbledon and U.S. Open tennis tournaments rely on McCormack to negotiate for them with television networks, and his firm has already been hired as a television consultant by the organizing committees of the 1988 Calgary and Seoul Olympics. When Pope John Paul II visited Britain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Street Smarts | 8/27/1984 | See Source »

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