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...this they have succeeded wonderfully. See Eddie pretend he is a very important journalist, terrorizing a snooty hotel into giving him a room despite his lack of a reservation. See him, a moment later, impersonate a delivery boy soft-shoeing his way past a wary receptionist. And watch closely, for in the wink of a camera's eye he is going to be a furious Customs inspector whose bite is worse than his bark. Or a homosexual lisping his way past a posh club's maître d' with a particularly mad invention. Murphy exudes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Eddie Goes to Lotusland | 12/10/1984 | See Source »

...pictures, "not a moral decision," ordered up another print run of 750,000 copies. He declined to say how much he had paid for the pictures, taken two years ago by a Mount Kisco, N.Y., photographer, Tom Chiapel, for whom Williams had once worked as a receptionist. Chiapel, who had been in financial straits before selling the Williams photographs, dodged the press...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: There She Goes, Miss America | 8/6/1984 | See Source »

...nude, extremely explicit love scenes with another woman on ten pages of the skin mag's September issue. According to the beauty queen's mother, Freelance Photographer Tom Chiapel took the black-and-white pictures two summers ago while Williams was working as a makeup artist and receptionist at a model agency. She reportedly signed a release and made little or no money from the photo session. Why the pictures surfaced now, just two months before the end of her reign, remained unexplained, but Guccione stated that Chiapel got "the most we ever paid for a layout." Williams...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Jul. 30, 1984 | 7/30/1984 | See Source »

...platoon was in thrall to Mommy dearest; at 31, Fred could not resist the pill-popping, unstable Ruth Coe, who was often his "date" at realty open houses. She also accompanied him on frequent hairstyling appointments. "If Kevin hesitated in the middle of a sentence," recalled the receptionist, "Mrs. Coe would fill in the word. They're that close!" Then, one evening, after a quarrel about his lack of accomplishment, Ruth vandalized Coe's car. "Don't let Son upset you," she once told Perham. "He's not worth it." Perham, a horrified witness to their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Victims | 3/19/1984 | See Source »

...complaint follows a ten-month investigation. It alleges that Thayer, who is married, has had a "personal relationship" since 1979 with Sandra Ryno, now 38, a divorcee and a former receptionist at LTV, the company he left a year ago for Washington. During 1981 and 1982, the SEC claims, Thayer passed stock tips to Ryno and seven other defendants in the suit. All seemed to come from soap-opera central casting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Life with Paul and Billy Bob | 1/16/1984 | See Source »

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