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MARRIED. Cristina Ferrare, 34, Los Angeles TV talk-show host divorced only two weeks ago from John De Lorean, beleaguered former automaker and accused-but-acquitted cocaine conspirator, by whose side she had sat devotedly during last year's trial; and Anthony Thomopoulos, 47, president of the ABC Broadcast Group, for whom this is also the second marriage; in Beverly Hills...
SEEKING REDIVORCE. Cristina Ferrare, 34, Los Angeles TV talk-show host; and John De Lorean, 60, ex-automaker and the ex-husband she thought she had divorced in California last April; in Somerville, N.J. Ruling on a petition by De Lorean challenging the California court's jurisdiction, a New Jersey judge declared their Golden State divorce invalid. Rather than appeal, lawyers for Ferrare, who is remarried to TV Executive Anthony Thomopoulos, decided on a normal Garden State divorce, with a hearing now scheduled for early autumn...
...were descrying the future TV of 2000, 20 years ago. You might have predicted a remarkable, crisp, high-tech TV display. You might have called it, say, "HDTV." And you would have been right. Except HDTV is probably not in your living room. As with the De Lorean car, the mere existence of a $5,000 or $10,000 TV set isn't sufficient to persuade consumers to go into hock to get a sharper look at Dennis Franz's butt. Instead, people have stuck with pretty much the same box they had in 1980, with less wood paneling...
...JOHN DE LOREAN, maker of a 1980s short-lived, luxury, gull-winged car: Much of the Mercedes mystique is a product of their great engineer Rudolf Uhlenhaut. His greatest accomplishment was the 300 SL Gullwing--the car I'd like to see revived--a car so advanced that nearly 50 years later, some of its features, like direct gasoline injection, are just appearing in the marketplace...
...were cloned over and over for Disney hits from The Love Bug to Splash. Hollywood's future auteurs were watching too. When they grew up they adapted the Shaggy Dog comedy-fantasy into one of the '80s' most reliable genres. What is Michael J. Fox's time-traveling De Lorean in Back to the Future, after all, but a retooling of Fred MacMurray's airborne Model T in The Absent Minded Professor...