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...fadeout of Rio Lobo, a Hollywood oater of 1970, Starlet Sherry Lansing guns down the varmint who had done her wrong and sashays off into the sunset with John Wayne. As she recalls, "I wasn't interested in being an actress at first, but when I walked onto that set, I started to become obsessed with film." Now the magnificent obsession has led to a new job in which the former actress and model will continue to face tough hombres. Last week Lansing, 35, was named president of production at 20th Century-Fox Pictures, putting her in charge...
...what a story it is. Thompson's subject is Charles Sobhraj, alias Charles Gurmukh, alias Charles Gurmukh, alias Alian Passaint, alias Lobo, alias Alain Gauthier. Conceived in Vietnam and raised in France, the young Charles is shuttled back and forth from his native Asia to the French countryside. As a youngster, he learns the tools of his trade quickly, throwing the blame for his own plots on others and magically convincing those around him to do what he asks. By the age of 24, Sobhraj is a man disowned by both father and nation, befriended only by a lone Frenchman...
...Paris (starring James Earl Jones). Joe Don Baker plays the New York City chief of detectives in NBC's Eischied (a spin-off of the TV miniseries To Kill a Cop); Claude Akins is a smalltown Southern sheriff in the same network's The Misadventures of Sheriff Lobo (a spin-off of B.J. and the Bear). ABC's Hart to Hart stars a jet-set husband-wife sleuthing team (Robert Wagner and Stefanie Powers). In CBS's Big Shamus, Little Shamus, father and son (Brian Dennehy and Doug McKeon) become the first TV detectives to police...
Death and taxes may be two great inevitabilities, but they are usually thought to be mutually exclusive. Kenneth Swenka, 48, a farmer in North Liberty, Iowa, found otherwise after the death of his three-year-old German shepherd, Lobo. When Swenka went to pay his county property taxes, he learned that they included a $1 levy on Lobo. Swenka told the authorities that the dog was dead, but was informed that since the tax had already been officially registered, he would have to pay. He reluctantly agreed. Then he found out that by Iowa...
Observes Swenka: "Lobo never gave me any trouble until he died...