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...three generations of Hungarian Jews in Istvan Szabo's Sunshine--won him kudos, but the films fizzled at the box office. His two commercial successes could be considered coattail rides: as Hannibal Lecter's apprentice madman in Red Dragon and as Jennifer Lopez's prince charming in Maid in Manhattan. Casual moviegoers may recall that his name has an exotic pronunciation, then wonder, What ever happened to Rafe Fines...
...Boudu is often described as prehippie; Nolte's Jerry, it figures, is posthippie. But the effect is the same. He is gloriously rude, insufferably arrogant. He dislocates respectable convention with everything from his table manners to his sexual morality, eventually bedding every female in the house, including the maid. Having gained the Whitemans' attention and the audience's complicity in his outrageousness, Jerry manages to teach everyone a lesson or two about living a little more freely and, maybe, happily...
...Barbara Johnson, 49, who each day sits just a few feet from them, looking serene and expensively groomed--a far cry from the Polish art-history graduate who arrived in the U.S. in 1968 with just $100 and a few words of English. She went to work as a maid for Johnson and his second wife, and three years later married him a week after his divorce. During their twelve-year marriage the pair embarked upon a style of high living to which even he had been previously unaccustomed. Together they created a $30 million, 140-acre homestead in Princeton...
...Catholic Church, as the jubilant bride arrived in a muslin silk and lace Marc Bohan gown, she had a sunny smile for crowds that had been gathering since before 9 a.m. Helping the bride with her 11-ft. train were her ten attendants, including her cousin Caroline Kennedy as maid of honor. Schwarzenegger had arrived the day before from Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, where he had been shooting his latest film. On his way to the church, he slowed his limousine out front, rolled down the window and, holding a cigar, flashed a huge grin at the crowd...
Perhaps even more pressing for the student body was the threat of losing the more luxurious elements of their housing. Already concerned by the College’s 1954 cutback in individual maid services for undergraduates, many students were reluctant to sacrifice their spacious rooms. “Private baths may go the way of other elements of gracious living,” a Crimson headline speculated...