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...leaf. The master builder is sedately curled up on a plush flower-print couch in an upstairs parlor. Now seven months pregnant, she radiates a warmth well beyond her Charlie's Angel image. Her skin is flawless, her eyes full of the clear California light and her manner exasperatingly placid. She and third husband Cinematographer Tony Richmond (The Greek Tycoon), 39, married last August. "I'm very old-fashioned," says the Houston dentist's daughter. "I've wanted babies ever since I was a little girl." A heady rise from shampoo commercials to Angel to film actress kept the yearning...
...Olympics. For a few weeks in the winter of 1980, you couldn't escape the name Dave Silk, just like you couldn't get away from the names Eruzione, O'Callahan and Craig. It was a name famous for a good reason: Silk, in the seven games at Lake Placid tallied twice and got three assists, including two against the Russians. That's one way of getting your name in the papers, not to mention the papers in hour hair--at tickertape parades...
...Durham, a game which several of the top players missed because of a curfew violation on a previous trip, the Eagles ECAC record stands at 4-3 (8-4 overall). Prior to the UNH game, B.C. saw holiday action in the I Love New York Tournament at Lake Placid, bowing in the opening round to Clarkson, 4-3 in overtime and then pasting Division 2 Plattsburg St., 6-2, in the consolation game...
...hockey truism caught up Harvard. You can't let up against anyone, not St. Lawrence, not B.U., not even--as Boston College found out Tuesday night--Brown. Play a period or two of placid, polite hockey and any team in the ECAC is capable of putting any other team away...
...Cybill Shepherd? The film's three ingenues all bear traces of the Delphic Cybill: Dorothy Stratten has the blond hair and the even features, Patti Hansen the mobile mouth in search of the perfect smirk, Colleen Camp the Texas twang and eerie talent for grating on the most placid moviegoer's nerves...