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...with their Barbies and Kens will have pint-sized versions of the TV couple to cuddle. That's when Mego International, makers of Batman, Robin and Star Trek dolls, will launch a $1 million ad campaign to market 12½-in. versions of Sonny and Cher to the moppet set. The Sonny doll will come with a twelve-piece wardrobe (including a sparkling silver lame jumpsuit), while the little Cher will have 32 costumes modeled after the tall one's own Bob Mackie creations. The Cher doll "looks just like me," says the singer happily, noting that...
Born. To Hayley Mills, 26, former Disney movie moppet who grew into adult parts (The Family Way, Twisted Nerve), and Roy Boulting, 59, British film producerdirector: their first child (Boulting's eighth), a son; in London. -Married. Nguyen Thi Tuan Anh, 19, only daughter of South Viet Nam's President Thieu; and Nguyen Tan Trieu, 28, son of the director general of Air Viet Nam, the national airline; both for the first time; in Saigon. -Died. Eugene L. Wyman, 48, Los Angeles attorney and Democratic leader whose political fund-raising skill brought millions into the campaign coffers...
Many still remember her as a curly-haired moppet singing the Good Ship Lollipop; but Shirley Temple Black, now 44 and the mother of three children, has devoted her recent years to public affairs-as a congressional candidate, U.N. delegate and special assistant on the President's Council on Environmental Quality. Stricken with a breast tumor, Shirley not only underwent a mastectomy but publicly announced the operation so "that women will not be afraid to go to their doctors for diagnosis when they have unusual symptoms." Doctors reported that they had removed all malignancy, and Shirley declared...
...just knew I could do it well." More's the pity. The narrator, Marjoe Gortner, has been a foot-hopping, finger-jabbing, Jesus-peddling evangelist for more than half of his 28 years, starting at the tough age of 3½. At four, the curly-coiffed, dandied-up moppet stirred up headlines and a legal ruckus by marrying a young sailor and his girl in a California wedding.* Now he is a sensation in a devastating and disturbing film that casually tears away the "facade of holiness" that has been Marjoe's evangelical life...
...advertising executive with a breakfast-food account will tell you, the best way to a mother's pocketbook is through her children. Some Wisconsin Telephone Co. ads use an engaging little moppet named Lori Busk, 7, who urges mothers to buy a second telephone for the convenience of their tots. One ad begins with a hidden voice asking Lori, "Hey, what do you like most about extension phones?" Lori replies, "All the colors," adding, "They're convenient." She then explains convenience: "It means that when you're busy coloring in your room, you don't have...