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...Outdoor Beauty and Fitness Book is poised to shimmy up the bestseller list. So lest a bit of open wall in a teenager's bedroom not be filled with her image, here comes a new $3 poster, her first authorized pinup, with the subject in a Norma Kamali bathing suit that not just anyone could or would wear. Next Brinkley must turn to promoting her movie, National Lampoon's Vacation, due out later this summer. "Life," as Christie has said, "is the search for a decent night's sleep...
...kept a lookout on Arkansas; they knew that Kahl had spent much of last year living in the state under an assumed name. About a week ago, a man who looked like Kahl was spotted near Smithville riding in a car that belonged to the son of Leonard and Norma Ginter, who occupied the bunker-like house and were said to be sympathizers of the tax-protest movement. When Arkansas officials gathered enough evidence to obtain a search warrant, the raid was organized. As the heavily armed police officers positioned themelves around the house, Sheriff Gene Matthews and three other...
...production company in 1927, which numbered among its backers Joseph P. Kennedy (with whom she claimed to have had an affair), and made some of her best movies, including Sadie Thompson (1928). Her career then faded, until her triumphant 1950 comeback as Sunset Boulevard's aging actress Norma Desmond. "You used to be big," the silent-screen star is told. "I am big," intones Swanson unforgettably. "It's the pictures that got small." Married six times, enthusiastic about health foods and natural cosmetics, maker and spender of millions, she never got small. In her final film role (Airport...
...only four humanists and social scientists working in the country, in contrast to the 50 or so Mosher recalls from his day. No one is allowed to study villages, where about 75% of all Chinese live. But American scholars do not blame Mosher for the crackdown. Says Norma Diamond, an anthropologist at the University of Michigan: "The kind of extensive social investigation that anthropologists require has never been understood or welcome in China." Many believe that the Chinese were just looking for an excuse to turn away foreigners. Says Harvard Professor Merle Goldman, a member of the committee that gave...
...wind up; carpenters, grips, security men, sound technicians and other behind-the-scenes retirees outnumber the luminaries, but the list of recognizable retirees is not as brief as one might expect, given the salaries in the business they have left behind. Mary Astor is here. Donald Crisp died here. Norma Shearer is here. Eddie ("Rochester") Anderson died here. Regis Toomey is here. Ellen Corby, the grandmother on The Waltons, just moved in. Stepin Fetchit is here. Bruce Cabot, Chester Conklin, Larry Fine (one of the Three Stooges), Edmund Lowe, Arthur O'Connell, Herbert Marshall and Mitchell Leisen (a director...