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...donation was made by Democrats for the '80s, a Washington-based political action committee. The PAC bought tickets to a fund-raiser on Sept. 14, co-chaired by Sen. Edward M. Kennedy '54, to benefit the winner of the Democratic Senate primary...
...Republican National Convention this summer in Dallas, National Conservative Political Action Committee (NCPAC) Chairman Terry Dolan announced plans one morning for a fund-raiser to be held at the ranch of multibillionaire Nelson Bunker Hunt. Included in the press packet was a "Statement of Principle," which read in part: "We believe that if one is indeed hungry, there is always honorable work. We believe that aid should be forthcoming to the truly troubled, by a body most likely to know him by name...
...Hollywood it was being kicked around as "Bo's boo-boo." And for a while it did appear that Bolero, the latest eyebrow-raiser starring the original 10, Bo Derek, 27, and directed by Husband John Derek, 58, might never be released. The reason: Israeli Executive Producers Menahem Golan and Yoram Globus, who sank $7 million into the film, and MGM/UA, the studio set to distribute it, found the story of Bo's fling with a seemingly impotent Spanish bullfighter overstacked with single entendres. The Dereks were asked to cut some of the steamier scenes in order...
...opening scene shows a bizarre gathering, what looks like a mixture of a seance and a suffragette fund-raiser at a musty Boston club. Featured performers are a "Dr." Tarrant, full-time charlatan, faith-healer, and medium. The message is provided by his charming, red-haired daughter Verena (Madeleine Potter) who, assisted by her father's attendant spirits, delivers a heart-wrenching address on behalf of oppressed women. The camera alternates between a prim-looking, middle-aged woman listening to Verena's rhetoric in mystic rapture, tears in her eyes: and a handsome young man, listening with appreciation that looks...
...people are very good at what they do; they know more about emotional strings than most talented shrinks-and Saturday they pulled them all. Not that it was easy. Not that an ocean of perspiration hadn't been shed in the weeks leading up to that explosive curtain raiser...