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...permit his family the free flying privileges that most airline executives give their children. Burr and his wife Bridget, who was a cheerleader for his high school basketball team, occasionally manage to take the family to their ski condo in Park City, Utah, and to a home on Martha's Vineyard...
...heavy . . . Richard Widmark . . . was the worst . . . heavy in the world . . . And it's still true. Look at the Burt Reynolds and the Clint Eastwoods and all of that crap coming up. They're all abusive to women." Howard Hawks (To Have and Have Not; Red River) on typecasting: Martha Vickers played a nymphomaniac in The Big Sleep, and the studio signed her to a long-term contract. "She started playing a nice girl, and they fired her after six months . . . I said . . . 'You were a little bitch. Why didn't you keep doing that...
...board's action went against the view of the Reagan Administration, which believes that mergermakers should be unfettered by Government regulations. Federal Reserve Vice Chairman Preston Martin and Board Member Martha Seger, who were both appointed by President Reagan, voted against the measure. Martin warned that the central bank was "starting on a slippery slope" in adopting the rule, but the Administration indicated last week that it will not challenge the central bank's move...
...Woman's View of Watergate, but insists that the new one is "totally fiction." A Woman Lost, due in July from former Senate Wives Abigail McCarthy and Jane Muskie, is a "suspense novel" involving the wife of a Vice President who is hospitalized against her will; hmm, would Martha Mitchell mind? This month will also mark the publication of Conglomerate, by former Congressional Spouse Rita Jenrette; it's a racy story about takeover attempts in both bedroom and boardroom...
...Hollywood! Barbara Boyle, former senior vice president at Orion Pictures, dubs the place "Boys Town." Director Martha Coolidge calls it "the land of the starlet." Hollywood, though, has always been an industry in which powerful men made films starring beautiful women. The guys ran things--as producers, directors, bosses--and the highest-paid females were so much screen sirloin. The very job descriptions were sexist: cameraman but script girl. And ruling the set, in his safari jacket and jodhpurs, was the director--an amalgam of Da Vinci and De Sade, Patton and Hemingway. A man's man. No girls needed...