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Actress Jane Seymour has made a career out of portraying sexy, scheming ladies. Seymour, 33, played the femme fatale in both the TV mini-series East of Eden and the small-screen version of The Sun Also Rises. In her new film, Head Office, she is again true to form-this time in the boardroom. "I play a lady executive sleeping her way to the top," Seymour reports. "In many ways she is the most honest of the characters." Still, the star was bothered about her new role. "Would a thinking woman, a feminist do this?" she asked herself, then...
SENTENCED. Stacy Reach, 43, stage and film actor who stars in TV's Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer series; to nine months in prison, after pleading guilty to importing 1.3 oz. of cocaine into Britain last April from France, where he was filming the mini-series Mistral's Daughter; in Reading, England. Keach, who had already completed most of this season's Hammer episodes, began serving the sentence immediately...
...monthly by Robert J. Eggert for his newsletter Blue Chip Economic Indicators is that G.N.P. growth will pick back up to 3.3% in 1985. A growing number of analysts, however, are more skeptical. Says Sam Nakagama, a Wall Street economic consultant: "We are already in the midst of a mini-recession, and the danger is that the economy will slide into a full-fledged recession...
Read Foreign Affairs now, don't wait for the vidco: it is not the stuff of which mini series are made. The sibling affairs here are delightfully foreign: not because they sprout in London but because they involve the separate affairs of Professor Vinnie Miner, an authority on English children rhymes, and Assistant Professor Fred Furner, who is in pursuit of tenure via the works of eighteenth century English poet John...
Ellis Island, the most ambitious network mini-series of the season thus far, starts out with a reasonable plan: to pluck four individuals from the huddled masses who came to these shores and tell their stories. Unfortunately, the seven-hour drama (based on a novel by Fred Mustard Stewart, who also had a hand in the teleplay) seems less interested in chronicling the immigrant experience than in salvaging the wretched refuse of scores of bad Hollywood movies...