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...miniseries that is a dumbed-down adaptation of the James Clavell novel of the same name. As a casting choice, Pierce Brosnan could not have been improved upon, playing the taipan, or chairman, of Struan & Co., which is modeled on the real-life conglomerate Jardine Matheson. Deborah Raffin - white of stocking and padded of shoulder - is the love interest and Ben Masters plays a silver-haired corporate raider. A pouting, 21-year-old Tia Carrere gives a splendid performance as a mistress by the name of Venus Poon. (See 10 things to do in Hong Kong...
Though Michael Viner is making a mint off the O.J. Simpson trial, he likes to think he is taking the high road. As the owner, with his actress wife Deborah Raffin, of Dove Audio Inc., Viner has so far signed up four books about the case: Faye Resnick's Nicole Brown Simpson: The Private Diary of a Life Interrupted, which has sold about a million copies in book and audio form; I Know You Want to Tell Me, But I Really Don't Want to Know, a spoof of Simpson's own literary efforts; a work-in-progress by embattled...
...still subscribes to Variety, of course, but for Deborah Raffin, 29, the hottest flash on her career these days comes from China. It seems that a few years ago her Nightmare in Badham County-one of those young-girls-from-the-city-up-against-a-violent-small-town TV dramas-was released in Chinese movie theaters and became a monster hit, with more than 2.5 million seeing it in Shanghai alone. So when her 1980 movie, Touched by Love, is released in China next month, she will fly over for the first movie promotion tour ever by a Western actress...
Besides working the fullbacks on defensive coverage at Monday's practice, Scalise warned the back row about Jumbo winger Lisa Raffin. Using strategy developed during the Springfield College game. Scalise moved junior Gately to the right side to shadow Raffin, the Jumbos' main scoring threat...
Gately, an Honorable Mention All-American, silenced Raffin so effectively during the first half that Tufts coach Bill Gehling moved his leading offensive weapon to center forward...