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...huge and prosperous empire of Mormonism is all built upon a single rock: the claim that Joseph Smith Jr. was a prophet of God who miraculously discovered and translated long-lost holy scriptures. Ever since the Book of Mormon was published in 1830 it has been embraced by his Latter-Day Saints (current worldwide membership: 3.8 million) and scoffed at by outsiders. Now four California researchers, relying on the sometimes shaky science of handwriting analysis, say they have evidence that the book is a hoax...
...very pretty lady (Jacqueline Bisset) who can be observed scantily, or at least wetly and therefore clingingly, clad on every possible occasion. There is also some pretty underwater photography and some pretty fair suspense as good guys and bad guys thrash around on the ocean bottom looking for long-lost treasure of the Spanish Main, which is all mixed up with some more recently misplaced valuables -morphine that the wicked ones want to turn into heroin...
Watch out, Lauren Hutton and Margaux Hemingway: here comes another high-priced face. Victoria Fyodorova, the Soviet actress who came to the U.S. in 1975 in search of her long-lost American father, retired Rear Admiral Jack Tate, and soon married an airline pilot, has signed a five-year contract to advertise cosmetics put out by Alexandra de Markoff, a division of Lanvin. The company reckoned that her name and chiseled cheekbones fit the de Markoff image. Victoria, who has caught on i quickly to the ways of the consumer society, claims a lifelong interest in cosmetics. "As a child...
...miles to Cincinnati. There the two took eight hostages in a home for unwed mothers and held them for twelve hours, demanding to see the son they had given up at the same home 20 years earlier. Coulter finally surrendered after a young detective, pretending to be his long-lost son, persuaded him to end the siege...
...husband Carlo Ponti's first grandchild. Loren's work in Montreal involved family matters of a different kind. In Angela, a modern version of the Greek tragedy Oedipus at Colonus, she plays a restaurant waitress who loses her infant son to Mafia kidnapers. Years later, the long-lost lad, played by Steve Railsback, 30, accidentally meets up with Mom and, presto, some Oedipal complexities develop. Sophia can only hope she will avoid such problems in her next movie, The Great Day. She is cast as the mother...