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Salesmen at the General Nutrition Center store on Holyoke St. said yesterday they sell about two quarts of liquid protein each day. Most customers learned about the diet through a paperback bestseller, "The Last Chance Diet," they said...
Schwarzenegger knows where the best deals like, his book notwithstanding, and he will soon embark on the first of what he hopes will be a series of films based on the fantasy paperback, Konan, the Barbarian--shades of Johnny Weismuller's Tarzan epics. Despite his typecasting for the role, Schwarzenegger has been taking acting lessons for some time, even though he says he knows how to act. After all, acting is supposed to be natural these days since it has "gotten away from that Shakespearean way, delivering the lines in a weird...
Knopf; 181 pages, illustrated; $12.95;paperback...
Ever had an urge to cut television's Six Million Dollar Man down to size? Easy-if you can afford $395 for an unusual new product turning up in some U.S. department stores. It is a pocket television set, barely larger than a paperback book, with a 2-in. screen. The set, called the Sinclair Microvision, weighs less than 2 Ibs., functions on all frequencies in most countries and operates up to eight hours on a rechargeable battery pack...
...they do know one when they see one. The Immigrants is a dual selection of the Literary Guild; Dell has purchased the paperback rights for some $832,000, half of which will go to Fast. And Universal Studios has acquired production rights. The studio will probably produce a mini-series out of the books, and the resulting royalties could mean very big money for Fast, who sees his financial success largely as a freak of chance...