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Died. Spyros P. Skouras, 78, longtime cinema mogul; of a heart attack; in Rye, N.Y. A Greek immigrant 61 years ago, Skouras started his American career as a hotel busboy. He and two brothers bought into a nickelodeon in 1914, then built their $4,000 investment into a chain of moneymaking movie palaces. Skouras also took over the Fox Metropolitan theater group, rescued it from bankruptcy and wound up in 1942 as head of the entire 20th Century-Fox empire. He pioneered revolutionary techniques like CinemaScope and presided over the production of dozens of screen classics, including The Robe...
...together, each starring Carol Channing and Sid Caesar. In one, Caesar is a house painter and Channing a monied, molting society lovebird who is having the apartment redone for her cynical young lover. Guess who gets to use the bed? In another skit Caesar is a gamy garment-district mogul who sweeps Channing off the dance floor at Roseland. Since both are in their 70s, desire exceeds potency, and the two compromise on an antiquarian verbal waltz...
...weeks back, Diana, in company with her longtime friend, Motown Mogul Berry Gordy Jr., returned to her old neighborhood in Detroit to see "where I came from and to get an idea of what made me the kind of person I am." From that perspective, there is no doubt that Diana Ross has been energetically traveling the road to superstardom most of her life...
...hair with Saran Wrap and the exposed flesh with grease; then he wraps him up in gauze bandages soaked in liquid Hydro-Stone. For the model, this mummification can be an itchy, nasty and claustrophobic experience. One of Segal's models, the wife of New York Taxi Mogul Robert Scull, panicked inside the cast and had to be cut out, leaving her Courreges boots behind...
...world's most erotic temple carvings. Buddha himself helps explain such contradictory attitudes toward sex. Like St. Augustine, he spent his youth exulting in the pleasures of the flesh and his later years exalting the spirit. More immediate was the puritanical impact of the Moslems, whose Mogul empire controlled the subcontinent from 1526 until the early 1700s. The confusion in attitudes persists; while most Indian women haughtily reject the ubiquitous miniskirt, the partygoing younger ones have adopted the "hipster sari." The bottom portion is tied low enough to expose a generous expanse of the upper derrière, while...