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...videotaped will. For $350, Royal Color Portraits Inc. of Massapequa and Albany, N. Y., will record up to 15 minutes of an individual's reciting his or her last will and testament. The tape can then be played back after the person has died. The service, called Posterity Pix, includes a scriptwriter and makeup...
Posterity Pix was launched in 1980 by Kirsten Alpren, 26, a 1976 Miss Denmark, who took business administration courses at U.C.L.A. Says she: "I thought that if you had a videotape of a person saying in his own voice what he wanted to do with his estate, it would be almost impossible for anyone to contest the will." In fact, the recording supplements, rather than replaces, written legal documents...
Fashions in movie genres hit Hollywood in successive waves of benign silliness. Remember the gang-war cycle, the roller-disco pix, the movies about movie stuntmen? Now there's another improbable genre: Noah's ark meets the road movie. Within the past year, three films have told the story of a salt-of-the-earth guy and a sugar-and-spice gal who meet, fight and find true love while trucking cross-country in the company of large animals. Robert Redford and Jane Fonda liberated a Thoroughbred in The Electric Horseman; Burt Reynolds and Sally Field midwifed...
Heavyweight Champ Muhammad AM says he is slowing up at 33, but he is still fast enough to suit one admirer, Photographer-Actress Candice Bergen. After snapping pix at ringside as Ali battered English Boxer Richard Dunn in Munich, Candy rhapsodized: "He's so breathtakingly beautiful, absolutely dazzling. He's just like a mirrored ball. You can't keep track of him while he's dancing around in front of you." Before Ali's victory, Candice won, with the help of NBC, a bout of her own-against German tradition forbidding women a ringside seat...
...After all, the lucky buyers also gets the shoe-box, similarly emblazoned with the mugs of the fabulous four. For $10 you can purchase vintage copies of Faye, Rave and Movie Times: "Does Paul Live with the Ashers?" "The Beatles' REAL Story," and "Beatles Up to Date: Latest Pix Story." What could possibly induce one to part with such treasures? Certainly not money; perhaps the seller has duplicate copies. Such are the thoughts that go through the minds of Beatle buyers...