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Heading into another television season, American Broadcasting Co.'s schedule is chockablock with new shows -Gidget, Tammy, Honey West, Jesse James, The FBI, and an everyday offscreen cliffhanger that might be called Keep Your Eye on Norton Simon. The California industrialist, who has broadened his Hunt Foods into a far-reaching company (TIME cover, June 4), has been a prime stockholder in ABC for more than two years. Last week it was disclosed that he has bought much more stock through Hunt and a subsidiary, McCall Corp., boosting his stake from 6% to 9% of the outstanding shares...
...golfball-sized, 563.35-carat Star of India sapphire. Thus were recovered nine of the 24 sapphires, diamonds, rubies and emeralds that had been taken from New York City's American Museum of Natural History (TIME, Nov. 6) in one of the most imaginative jewel robberies ever perpetrated offscreen...
...Topkapi). This time, unfortunately, somebody's been tinkering with the formula. As Piet and Lucia go through their appointed rounds of deception and huff-and-puff chase, the reader begins to realize that too many of the motivations are phony, too much of the real action takes place offscreen, while too much of the onscreen talk comes out with a kind of freshly translated stiffness, as though the characters were speaking directly in English subtitles...
Half-bald since his 20s, Boyer never wears his toupee offscreen, and recently-as his parts have aged-he has been leaving it off while performing as well. He is a sleepless man-an hour of tossing for every five minutes of slumber. He has been married for 30 years, and has been an American citizen for 22. His wife was an English actress who gave up her career soon after their wedding. Because of his stability and longevity, Boyer is presumed rich, and he probably is by anyone's standards but his own. "I'm not rich...
...Near Dublin, the cast, crew, director, scenarists, and flacks connected with filming Somerset Maugham's Of Human Bondage have been behaving as if they were making another version of the offscreen Cleopatra. Soon after shooting began a couple of months ago, Roderick Mann of London's Sunday Express arrived for an exclusive interview with Kim Novak-and that's what he got. He stopped taking notes and started holding hands with her at the races. "This is a very personal thing between Roddy and me," Kim tells Roddy's competitors. Meanwhile. Director Henry Hathaway...