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...span, three UMass goals knotted it up once more. Midfielder Chris Schmitz accounted for two of the tallies, as the fourth quarter loomed as a 15:00 mini-game...
MARRIED. Rachel Ward, 25, English actress who played the cassock-chasing heroine of TV's The Thorn Birds; and Bryan Brown, 35, rugged Australian actor who was her spurned husband in the mini-series but who struck real-life romantic sparks while they were filming; both for the first time; in Cornwell, Oxfordshire, England...
What has 20 elephants, 27 camels, 120 bullocks, 60 members of India's 61st cavalry and Amy Irving? (No fair peeking.) It's The Far Pavilions, a six-hour cable-TV mini-series now filming in Jaipur, India. Irving, 29, says that her role as an Indian princess has inspired in her "a royal feeling. I notice that my posture has improved." She has also honed her horseback riding. "Now," says Irving, "I can walk like a princess and ride a horse like a cowboy." Much better that than riding like a princess and walking like a cowboy...
...format of the quarterfinals is a new one. Unlike last year's one, game affair, it's a two-game series--not decided by total goals as in the NCAA quarterfinals. Instead, if the teams split the two contests, or tie twice, they will play a 10-minute mini-game. If that tie-breaker ends in a tie, sudden death play will decide who goes to the Boston Garden for the semifinals...
...other networks professed polite corporate pleasure at Winds' success. Says Susan Baerwald, NBC's vice president for miniseries: "Winds was a gamble for ABC, and I'm thrilled it paid off. It gives the mini-series another lease on life." NBC is cranking up 15 new miniseries, CBS is playing it conservative with only three, and ABC will admit to having only two in the works. One of them, the ten-hour The Thorn Birds, will air starting in late March...