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...OLIVIA Newton-John's records would sell well no matter what they sounded like, so long as her picture was on the cover. And her latest release, Olivia Newton-John's Greatest Hits, follows this marketing device to the letter. The casual album browser is treated to a fantastic picture of the beautiful Olivia, complete with her dreamy green eyes, red lips, blond hair, and goddess-like face...

Author: By Marc M. Sadowsky, | Title: For Boys Only | 10/28/1977 | See Source »

Through its recording and Universal film subsidiaries, MCA Inc. has produced some of television's more violent programs (Baretta, Kojak), some very slick and successful flicks (The Sting and, above all, Jaws) and a stack of million-selling gold records, by Elton John and Olivia Newton-John among others. But entertainment alone has not satiated MCA's voracious appetite for acquisition. It also has pushed into computer services, retail gift stores, publishing (Putnam) and finance (Colorado's Columbia Savings and Loan). Last week MCA decided that all these things would go better with Coke. It offered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Jaws Tries to Swallow Coke? | 10/24/1977 | See Source »

Nevertheless, Alexandra says her life as a student remains important to her. She comes from a very "Harvard" family, and grew up in Newton; all her life, she says her parents and younger sister expected her to go to Harvard and on to some professional career--lawyer, most likely. While that is still possible (Alexandra says she is very interested in legal aspects of government), it appears increasingly less likely that she will be able to give up her career in show...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Shooting For The Stars | 10/17/1977 | See Source »

...listen to my Olivia Newton-John record because I'm reviewing it Friday. To quote Olivia herself, "Let me be there in the morning...

Author: By Mare Sadowsky, | Title: Dressing for the Game | 10/6/1977 | See Source »

...90th birthday. Chagall's art has the surreal. fantastic quality of a fairground where the sideshows never end. He depicts horses and riders cavorting inside sitting rooms and paints the moon suspended from the branches of a potted plant. His figures generally ignore the dictates of Isaac Newton. People glide, lean, float and spin like marionettes. Sometimes they are gigantic, towering ever a pink Eiffel Tower like the Harlequia-costumed "Magicien en Rose," at other times dwarfed by flower bouquets...

Author: By Diana R. Laing, | Title: Carnival Beside the Arctic Ocean | 9/22/1977 | See Source »

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