Word: queene
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...curves, Loni Anderson, the shapely, savvy receptionist of television's WKRP in Cincinnati, does not have to take a back seat to anyone. Who better then to play the title role in Jayne Mansfield: A Symbol of the '50s, a CBS-TV movie about the cinematic sex queen. Anderson, 33, at 36-24-36, is somewhat shy of Mansfield's more pronounced 40-18-36 but hardly needs Body shaping for Women, the recent how-to book by her co-star Arnold Schwarzenegger, who plays Jayne's second husband, Mickey Hargitay...
...exciting, respected literary profile Maugham wished to project, but the often caustic, seldom genuinely charming man, obsessed with his literary shortcomings--he considered himself a failure for not winning a Nobel Prize--and haunted by his own homosexuality and his fear of public exposure. Born during the reign of Queen Victoria, he clung to Edwardian values of keeping up appearances; he had many affairs with women, and eventually married and fathered a child, for propriety's sake alone. Even during the fifties and early sixties, until the time of his death, he took pains to conceal "the love that dares...
Back to the Brits. The Queen having recovered nicely from the recent unpleasantness, another Arab-directed group now plans to pinch a property of inestimably greater material value to the scepter'd isle. In The Samson Strike by Tony Williamson (Atheneum; 250 pages; $9.95), the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine sets out to capture a vast oil platform in the North Sea that can pump 400,000 bbl. a day from its undersea wells. Unless the terrorists win the release of all political prisoners in Europeplus ?57 millionthey will waste the $400 million...
Operation QEII is not code-named for the passenger liner but for Her Britannic Majesty. In The Siege of Buckingham Palace by Walter Nelson (Little, Brown; 239 pages; $10.95), a fanatic Baghdad-based group named Bloody Christmas sets out to kidnap the Queen and "strike at the heart of the Western world." In return for her freedom, the guerrillas demand the release of all 156 terrorists held in British, West German and Israeli prisonsplus ?5 million sterling and a jet to Libya. Arabs being all too visible in England, the royal heist is conducted by I.R.A. Provos, members...
...antiterrorist squad and holder of the George Cross, the highest decoration for gallantry awarded by the Crown to a civilian. Meanwhile, the invaders have imprisoned Her Majesty and a young lady-in-waiting in the palace's royal apartments. Almost as pressing as the need to save the Queen is the absolute necessity of keeping the siege secret. Otherwise, more than 100,000 enraged Britons might storm the palace and ensure her death. Walter Nelson, a London-based American writer, builds his picaresque story to a touching denouement, with some time out for farce. Siege is his first novel...