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Every girl learns at a very young age that it is wrong to have sexual intercourse with a man without being married to him. This is in violation of one of the rules of society. I hope Lee Marvin [Jan. 15] doesn't have to pay that woman any money...
...began to see that they were giving pitifully short shrift to the country's most important cultural phenomenon. No-nonsense reporters and respected critics were assigned the beat, and sharp, analytical commentary soon came to the TV page. Critics like Tom Shales, 33, of the Washington Post, and Marvin Kitman, 49, of Newsday, are masters of the lampoon. The new breed can also level their targets with sheer ferocity. One recent example from the Boston Globe's William A. Henry III: "RKO General has run Channel 7 with such greed, arrogance and contempt for the people of Boston...
...Pilot Riddel Marvin's pocket, however, the authorities found evidence indicating another objective: a smudged note giving the coordinates of a large clandestine airstrip in the area. The army, tipped off by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, had been waiting for the three Americans. According to intelligence, they were supposed to pick up six tons of grass and another American, who had been arrested last November after illegally flying into the country. The three are now being held in Colombia on illegal-entry charges, and DEA officials say they may be prosecuted for conspiracy to smuggle when allowed to return...
...Marvin and Robbie Bostin of Stamford, Conn., joint custody of their son Shepard, 12, made so much sense that they put such an arrangement into practice nearly a year before a court made their divorce final last November. Shep spends two days a week, and alternates three-day weekends, with each parent. "My friends know where to reach me," he says. "I just give them the phone numbers and the schedule. It works...
...reverberations from Mitchelson's latest case are already broad. As many as 1,000 Marvin vs. Marvin-style suits have been filed in the California courts alone. The case has stirred so much litigation that one San Francisco divorce lawyer now likes to call living together "marvinizing." Actress Britt Ekland had sued Singer Rod Stewart for a partnership interest in his earnings, estimated at $5 million, for the two years they lived together but settled last year for attorneys' fees, a house and some cash. Mitchelson, who has been called "the paladin of paramours," has been signed...