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Nowadays Linda stages large dinner parties, stalks studio executives day and night. After she cornered Paramount Production Chief Robert Evans last month, she came away with a four-picture contract, beginning at $7,500 for a week's work in The President's Analyst. Romina was to portray Snow White, a teeny-bopper who gets seduced by James Coburn. "That's more money than Ty was making when he was tops at Fox!" exulted Linda. "That's the cocktail...
...There has never been any question but that I was meant for movies," says Romina Power, the 15-year-old daughter of Linda Christian and the late Tyrone Power. "But I want to be discovered for myself, not just because of my parents' name...
...chance. Wherever Romina goes, her actress mother is just a step behind. "She will do everything," says Linda. "She sings beautifully. She paints, she dances like a dream. She even writes poetry." Linda, now 42, considers herself not a pushy stage mother but a servant of destiny. Her astrologer, she explains, prophesied that Romina would have "all and everything Napoleon had without the downfall. I was told this at her birth, so I was able to prepare." But Hollywood was not prepared for Linda's big Power play. During the past month, she has waged a selling campaign that...
...more like a Mickey Finn. A few weeks later-even before shooting began-Coburn complained that he would feel uncomfortable making movie love to such a young thing, so the studio decided to drop Romina for someone a little older. Linda telephoned Evans a dozen times a day, demanding explanations and offering script revisions that would accommodate Romina's talent for projecting "pure love through poetry." Asked if her budding starlet might take some acting lessons, Mommy exclaimed: "Are you crazy? Do you want to spoil that gift...
Kissing Lessons. If no more picture contracts are forthcoming, the dynamic duo may return to their home in Rome. There, Romina's reputation as an ingenue is less than snow white. Two years ago, when the De Laurentiis studio gave Romina the role of a child bride in Home Life, Italian Style, Linda swooped in and demanded "American prices" because "Romina is Romina." Romina's success in the picture led to another nymphet role in How I Learned to Love Women, in which, says Linda, "she absolutely wiped the screen with her leading man." And, she adds proudly...