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...sacrificial lovely. Snider does love her, but he also sees an exploitable innocence; she is a property that he can ride our of his world of cars and girls--into a world of faster cars and faster girls. Hugh Hefner (Played with den-mother benevolence by pajama-clad Cliff Robertson) is Snider's Buddha, and the Playboy Mansion his sensualist's nirvana. He impresses Dorothy with his tacky style; he gives her a real two-carat topaz; he escorts her to her senior prom in a ruffled sky-blue tuxedo. Eric Roberts is a brilliantly spoiled and clutching Snider...
...kill himself as well). But the words pierce to the heart of the matter as the writer-director sees it. Everyone Dorothy Stratten meets wants to exploit her in some way. Yet in this peculiar moral universe, Fosse suggests, the differences between Hefner (played with slithery menace by Cliff Robertson), Snider and the upscale moviemaker (Roger Rees) who aspires to be her ultimate Pygmalion are more a matter of style than of principles...
...Once you have it, you're never going to lose it," explains Oscar Robertson, 44. "The Big O" was back under the hoops last week along with Wilt Chamberlain, Bob Cousy and Jack Twyman, among other N.B.A. old-timers who showed up at Kutsher's Country Club in Monticello, N.Y., for a game to raise funds for needy pro-basketball players. Indeed, the old stars do still seem to have it. Cousy, 55, handled the ball with magical dexterity, and when 7-ft. 1-in. Chamberlain, 46, slam-dunked a basket, the crowd roared as if "Wilt...
Sons of evangelists often follow in paternal footsteps. Timothy B. Robertson, 28, has just been made a vice president of Pat (700 Club) Robertson's Christian Broadcasting Network. Another TV preacher, Rex Humbard, has four children in his operation. Billy Graham's son Franklin, 30, is also a preacher, but he chose his own course and now heads Samaritan's Purse, a humanitarian agency working overseas. His father, though, sometimes muses that Franklin might prove useful some day in the Billy Graham organization...
...financial markets had scored big gains in anticipation of the reappointment, but after it became official, the rally cooled off. The Dow Jones industrial average declined one point last week, to close at 1241.69. Investors are cautious because they recognize what a tough assignment is facing Volcker. Says Norman Robertson, chief economist of Pittsburgh's Mellon Bank: "We have not yet solved the problem of how to sustain a recovery without reigniting the fires of inflation. This will be Volcker's task, and no one has ever pulled it off before...