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Nowadays Billy Dee is firmly tied with a Gordyan knot-a guaranteed annual income of $200,000 whether he works or not, plus percentages of his films. A loner who lives quietly in a modest three-bedroom house in Laurel Canyon with his Japanese-American wife Teruko and three children, Williams spends free time meditating, sketching, writing poetry and working out daily in a gym. His life-style more closely resembles that of such famed loners as Robert Redford and Paul Newman than that of Billy Dee's gregarious idol Clark Gable. "I am still searching," says Williams seriously...
...Auto Workers and challenged favored State Secretary Richard Austin, 63, for the nomination. Riegle won, 44% to 29% A former Republican Congressman whose liberal policies earned him a place on Richard Nixon's enemies list, Riegle switched to the Democrats in 1973 and this time ran as the loner against the state Democratic establishment...
Getty hit it. When he died last week at 83, after a long illness, his fortune, built mostly around his majority interest in Los Angeles-based Getty Oil Co., stood at more than $1 billion. Like that other billionaire loner, the late Howard Hughes, Getty started out with inherited wealth. But he was certainly less like Hughes, the eccentric playboy-pilot, than like the original Mellons and Rockefellers, a crusty, supremely self-disciplined original who determinedly set out to build a business empire-and succeeded even beyond his own expectations...
Carter always has campaigned as something of a loner. Other candidates usually have large entourages of hirelings and hangers-on. Not Carter. To an astonishing degree, he is conducting a one-man campaign. On a recent trip, his official party consisted of four low-level aides (and ten reporters...
Died. Sir Carol Reed, 69, famed British film director who excelled in portraying the loner (Odd Man Out, 1946; The Man Between, 1953) and in melodramas of suspense (Night Train to Munich, 1940); of a heart attack; in London. At 29, Reed won the praise of Critic-Author Graham Greene, with whom he was to collaborate on some of his best and most atmospheric films, notably The Fallen Idol (1948) and The Third Man (1949), starring Orson Welles and Joseph Cotton. Sir Carol's first musical, Oliver!, though not a favorite with critics, won an Oscar as the best...