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...even as they slog through solecisms and wail eloquently that the numbers of those who understand the English language are vanishing like the Mayas or Hittites. Droves of purists can be seen shuddering on every street corner when the word hopefully is misused. Their chairman of the board is NBC-TV's Edwin Newman, their chief executive officer the New York Times's William Safire. One author, the late Jean Stafford, had a sign on her back door threatening "humiliation" to anyone who misused hopefully in her house...
...those aristocrats of physical culture, the modern and ballet dancers, have always gone. Says Impresario Paul Taylor: "The dancer's body is superb as a functioning instrument to accomplish physical feats." Deb bie Allen, who plays a dance teacher and serves as choreographer on the NBC-TV series Fame, sees dancing as "a precision art. Doing the things your body might not want to do keeps your mind alert and elevated." And, as Choreographer Patricia Birch (Grease) notes, "other people are admiring dancers' bodies to the point of emulating them. Muscles have become the status symbol of fitness...
...influence of the Klitgaard report on admissions may continue to linger. The final version of Klitgaard's report is due to be released soon, and the publicity form the earlier report continues: earlier this month, for example, NBC-TV included discussion of it in a "Whie Paper...
Crowned the "Queen of the Creepies" for her roles in such harem-scarems as Halloween and Prom Night, Actress Jamie Lee Curtis, 22, graduates to real life in her next part but still plays a victim. In the NBC-TV movie The Dorothy Straiten Story, Curtis will play the Playmate of the Year turned actress who was murdered last August by her husband. The daughter of Actor Tony Curtis, 56, and Actress Janet Leigh, 54, Jamie will be dressed for family viewing in the TV movie, but will show off those good family lines in a racier European version...
MARRIAGE REVEALED. Bill Murray, a comedian formerly in the cast of NBC-TV'S Saturday Night Live who went on to star in such films as Meatballs (1979) and the current Stripes; and Mickey Kelley, a staffer for Saturday Night Live; on Jan. 25; in New York City...