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...watcher, the visible thawing of the dour-looking Begin and the expansiveness of Sadat conveyed a compatibility that no communique could have made as credible. But consider the conduct of the three famous anchor people: each got an "exclusive" interview; whatever unseemly scrambling this required took place offscreen. On-camera, addressed chummily as Walter, John and Barbara, they deferentially answered back "Mr. President" or "Mr. Prime Minister," behaved like diplomats and asked soft questions, as if afraid their very questions might queer the peace. Confined to friction-free language, they repeatedly used words like historic and momentous; their principal editorial...
Down-to-earth though he may appear on television, Frank Perdue is no bumpkin. He wears Gucci loafers and drives a blue Mercedes, lives in a condominium in Ocean City, Md. (he and his wife recently separated) and plays a plucky game of tennis when he can. Offscreen, he is even beginning to talk like an adman. He professes no fear of other firms that are beginning to emulate him by advertising brand-name chickens-because, he says, "nothing puts a bad product out of business faster than good advertising...
...whose heart belongs to her husband, Writer Bryan Southcombe, 38, and Son Barnaby, 3. From the looks of it, her present image is Hollywood wholesome in every respect. In Charlotte's latest TV movie-titled Sherlock Holmes in New York-she portrays sleuth's mysterious lady friend. Offscreen, Rampling is negotiating to adopt a young French orphan. "I'll want to spend more time with my children, especially as they need me more," says Mom. "My ideal now is to make about one film a year...
Fans find out what is happening to their favorites through a dozen-odd soap magazines. Daytime TV is the largest and purest: it has a 380,000 circulation and discusses only soaps. Mostly the stories are breathless accounts of stars' offscreen habits and romances. Item: Carolee Campbell is leaving her role in The Doctors to pursue her interest in the martial arts. Last year the mags had some real meat to chew. Another World Actor George Reinholt, the soaps' bad boy, had so many off-camera tantrums that enraged Head Writer Harding Lemay wrote him out of the show...
...Yeah, well... I think that... umm ... you know ... uh-hah." Actor Robert DeNiro is not voluble. Nor, offscreen, is he particularly visible. Lean, with lanky brown hair and narrow, green-brown eyes, a pallid face by turns near-handsome and homely, he has the protective coloration of a chameleon...