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...supervisors, could have been fooled by anyone so preposterous. Kujau, who since the 1960s had used the alias Fischer, often strutted around Stuttgart in a Nazi SS officer's uniform, although he was a boy of six when Hitler's Third Reich fell in 1945. He gave lavish parties for fellow patrons of his favorite bars: Stern reported that one night he ordered 70 bottles of champagne, and that over the past two years he squandered 1.5 million marks ($600,000) on night life...
...been in years. He doesn't give a hoot that he's about to turn 80, but all the fresh attention makes him feel on top again. Last week the Senate celebrated his birthday and this week NBC is devoting an entire prime-time evening to a lavish tribute from Washington's Kennedy Center. The President and Nancy will be there to honor Hope and his wife of 48 years, Dolores. So will the third generation of pretty young TV women-Cheryl Tiegs, Christie Brinkley-who have smiled their way through Bob's corny on-screen...
Produced at a cost of $32.5 million (compared with more than $10 million for Star Wars and $25 million for Empire), Jedi is more lavish than its predecessors. Star Wars, for example, had about 545 special effects; The Empire, 763; Jedi has 942. "The effects in this film are more or less the way I wanted them to be in Star Wars, but I didn't have the technology to carry them out," says Lucas. "The space battle is ten times more complicated than the one in Star Wars. If you went back and saw that one after seeing this...
...many airlines are slashing prices and skimping on service, Regent Air, a new carrier based in Los Angeles, intends to chart a different course. When its twice-daily flights between Los Angeles and New York City begin in July, passengers will live high as they fly high. Amid a lavish art deco decór, they will sip Taittinger champagne from fine crystal and dine on caviar and fresh Maine lobster. They will have plenty of room to stretch and stroll. Regent Air's 727 jets will carry a maximum of 36 travelers, in contrast...
...Husband David, the late moviemaker best known for Gone With the Wind, is treated with sympathy but still comes off as a monument to destructive compulsions and self-indulgence. Much of his legendary energy appears to have come from a vial of Benzedrine; his lavish spending distracted his attention from huge gambling debts; he was always late, and misspent his time writing gratuitous memos on rolls of two-inch-wide paper that snaked across his desk...