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Curious lapse: once young Alex Rogan (Lance Guest) reluctantly leaves his dismal trailer park and his pert girlfriend (Catherine Mary Stewart) and arrives on Rylos, staging area for the paltry battle to come, he is either too polite or too dense to mention its uncanny resemblance to the mechanical landscapes scattered about the Star Wars galaxy. Of course he can't hear the score (marked-down John Williams) and is perhaps too caught up in the action to notice how much everyone and everything he meets resembles software, hardware and ideas people have all had just about enough...
...camera pans a busy Manhattan street, then zooms in on a pert brunette whose spunk and bright-eyed appeal tell us she is, well, That Girl. Still a role model for today's single woman, Marlo Thomas, 45, has grown up since her carefree days as the star of the popular 1960s television series. In The Lost Honor of Kathryn Beck, a two-hour TV movie filmed in Chicago and Springfield, Ill., Thomas plays a divorced woman who is harassed by the police in their search for her fugitive lover, played by Kris Kristofferson, 47. Says Thomas...
...just about every R-rated teen movie these days. Call it Contact High. There you will find no teachers, only agents; no exams, only screen tests; no graduation, only the picking up of options. The boys are feral carnivores out of The Blackboard Jungle; the girls are pert Circes out of a sophomore's wet dream. The nice guys surf, smoke dope and screw around; the bad ones torch autos, walk with a surly Gestapo swagger and carve their initials in the nearest human flesh. There is never a dull moment, never a suspension of disbelief, never a security...
...several days last week, pretty American Astronaut Anna Fisher was the hit of Vienna. In Austria for the Second United Nations Conference on the Exploration and Peaceful Uses of Outer Space (Unispace 82, for short), the pert, 33-year-old physician, who has been training for a shuttle flight and may become one of the first American women in space, attended parties and even lectured to children at the Vienna planetarium. At week's end, however, Fisher's star was eclipsed by a 34-year-old acrobatic pilot and parachutist named Svetlana Savitskaya, who blasted off with...
Those early minis were also something of a joke, of course. Some Quant creations consisted of less material than a Victorian hanky and-at eleven inches above the knee-barely covered the area once reserved for underwear. On the way up from the pert Chelsea shopgirl look, the ultrashort skirt was given the imprimatur of couture by Parisian Designer André Courrèges in the middle '60s. The mini's bon voyage across the Atlantic was largely the work of Enfant Terrible Rudi Gernreich, who was not only the first U.S. designer to bare the thigh...