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...Sydney press conference, and Dietrich's representatives handed out a list of two dozen questions that newsmen should avoid asking. Samples: How many grandchildren do you have? How many films did you make? When did you make The Blue Angel? What do you think about women's lib?* Inevitably, someone broke the rules by asking if Dietrich ever planned to make another picture, perhaps her life-story. "Oh dear, I'd be bored stiff," came the reply...
...fact that Cosell and ABC were running a high risk. A live prime-time show is so out of the ken of the current TV generation that most people have forgotten its limitations. Timing each act to the nanosecond becomes vital; the stars' ability to ad-lib gracefully and wittily is crucial; many stars, accustomed to the adjustments of video tape, regard live performance as a jump without...
...That was when Revlon introduced a new perfume under the improbable name "Charlie." Associates grimaced, competitors smiled, and Revson went on talking about how it was perfect for "the woman who is sort of liberated but who isn't a bra burner." Revson's semi-lib market turned out to be there all right-and enormously profitable too. In that first year, Charlie sales exceeded $10 million in the U.S., and today stores sell more Charlie than any other American fragrance...
...have always styled myself a Democrat, congratulating myself on my lib eral outlook. Lately though, it seems that I agree with President Ford more than I agree with my own Democratic Congress. Gerald Ford seems to be realistic, as his decision to sign the treaty in Helsinki shows. Far from being a betrayal of Eastern Europe, this document is an acknowledgment of Europe as it is today. Our denial of its existence is hardly going to make the Berlin Wall go away...
...Paris-bound truckloads of the bootlegged papers, and scattered them across Flanders fields. Yet about half the normal press run made it through, and since then the daily has been published more or less regularly in a plant north of Paris with the aid of some Le Parisien Libéré printers who belong to the socialist Force Ouvrière, a union that does not recognize the strike. That labor organization's head, André Bergeron, escaped injury when a bomb exploded on his doorstep just a few minutes after the one that killed Cabanes. All together...