Word: peyton
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...work at Dunkin' Donuts. When she exited, King turned to the typewriter which was perched on a child's desk. As an adolescent, he had read Richard Matheson's The Shrinking Man and other works that were adapted for The Twilight Zone. "The same year," he recalls, "I read Peyton Place and Kings Row. I understood instinctively that both authors were talking about the small-town caste society that I grew up in, the veil of hypocrisy, what people hide behind. I understood that I could write about my own milieu and combine it with Matheson's approach...
...rerunland, have returned as new TV movies. Raymond Burr was back grilling witnesses in last December's Perry Mason Returns. Kung Fu, the early '70s hit starring David Carradine as an Eastern mystic in the American West, resurfaced as a CBS movie early in February. Kojak, Peyton Place and I Dream of Jeannie are among the other series that have been resurrected in the past year...
...test: if the hankies come out, Boheme is a success. The shocker was that onlookers misted up not for Ronstadt but for another Mimi, tiny, strawberry-blond Soprano Patti Cohenour. (Lead duties are divided; Cohenour sings four of eight weekly performances; Ronstadt three, and another Mimi, Caroline Peyton, the remaining show.) The sweet-voiced Cohenour and her surprisingly strong Rodolfo, Country Singer Gary Morris, seemed lyrically in love. The other leads, a fine Marcel (Howard McGillin) and a brilliant Musette (Cass Morgan), took fire from them. The night before, Ronstadt and her Rodolfo, David Carroll, had sung at and past...
...years ago the university turned some living quarters into "houses," each with its own master and academic-related programs. The move came in response to widespread demands for "alternative life styles with more contact between the faculty and the students," says Peyton Randolph Helm, Penn's former coordinator of college house programs...
...waited a lifetime, more than 30 years, to hear those three words, 'Mrs. Howard Hughes.' " And the three words were worth perhaps eight figures to Terry Moore, 54, actress (Peyton Place, Come Back Little Sheba) and Korean War pinup girl. Back when she was a starlet in 1949, Moore maintains, she and Billionaire Hughes, then 43, were secretly married on a sailing trip to Mexico and were never legally divorced, even though he remarried at least once and she has since married and divorced three other men. After Hughes' death in 1976, Moore went public with...