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...subject-herself. "I have been a professional photographer for 15 years," she confides. "My work has been published, but Adnan never let me use my name, so they gave me all kinds of crazy credits." Her credit should improve if she wins the $2.5 billion divorce settlement Palimony Lawyer Marvin Mitchelson is demanding on her behalf. Soraya also has other resources. "I'm almost finished with my autobiography," she says, "and it's fair to say it will be sensational. It's a total, truthful and unabridged version of my life." Self-illustrated...
During the past three months, NBC has slipped into last place in the evening news ratings, behind longtime leader CBS and newly aggressive ABC. Desperate to reverse the slide, NBC last month hired Diplomatic Correspondent Marvin Kalb, 50, away from CBS-but only after taking the questionable step of guaranteeing him a certain number of appearances on the nightly news each week. The network also announced that its Today Show would air ten "exclusive" interviews with Presidential Candidate John Anderson during the Republican Convention, a gimmick of dubious news value and fairness...
...lush given to brutal child abuse. In I'm Dancing as Fast as I Can, TV Producer Barbara Gordon publicizes the story of her ad diction to Valium. In Memoir of a Gambler, Play wright Jack Richardson details his flings with Las Vegas whores. Rhythm and Blues Singer Marvin Gaye has even turned the bitter themes of a painful 14-year marriage into a hit record album, Here, My Dear. Author-Director Bob Fosse has let it be known that his own life is echoed in his film All That Jazz, a tale about a lecherous choreographer...
...Miracles ended 1960 with one gold record. By the end of the decade they had seven more. Motown grew into a kind of consortium of all-American soul as Gordy moved acts like the Supremes, Marvin Gaye and-yes-the Miracles out of the soul circuit and into the mainstream. Eventually Smokey seemed to lose his footing a little bit. He broke with the Miracles in 1972, wanting to spend time with his family. His solo records, smoothly crafted, were winning but not involving, irresolute, somehow, as if written and recorded on automatic...
Shortly before 5 a.m. Friday, a bleary-eyed Marvin Miller, executive director of the Players Association, and Ray Grebey, the owners' negotiator, shook hands on what Miller called a "miracle" agreement that averted a walkout by the players. Left unresolved was the pivotal question of how a club should be compensated when one of its players turns free agent and is hired away by another team. But it appeared that the owners left the bargaining table with a narrow victory on this point, while losing gracefully on pensions and salaries. Admitted Phil Garner, second baseman and player representative...