Word: rose
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...interview with herself for the tenth-anniversary issue of After Dark magazine. She also appears on the cover, kicking up her heels above a sea of balloons. Soon she will be kicking off her first movie, which, she promises, is "nothing with flying saucers. Nothing with sharks." The Rose is the story of a flamboyant, 1960s blues singer. "It's not about Janis Joplin. It's about a blues singer who wins-beats life at its own game," insists Bette. Her co-star is Alan Bates, who plays her manager. "I've never met Miss Midler...
...want to see this show or they don't," explains Klein. "It would have been ludicrous to star-stud it." Instead of celebrities, the audience will see prominent actors from the Royal Shakespeare Company (Ian Holm), the New York Shakespeare Festival (Meryl Streep) and Broadway (Rosemary Harris, George Rose). The Nazis are mainly played by British. Says Berger: "We did not want any comedic overtones of Hollywood." Most of the cast members accepted their roles as soon as they saw the script. One of the two actors who turned down parts felt that the show overly humanized the Nazis...
Action of some sort is surely needed. The Government reported last week that wholesale prices in March rose at an annual rate of 7.4%-seemingly encouraging, since the February rate had been a staggering 14%. But the increase for the whole first quarter ran at an annual rate of 9.6%, within reach of the double-digit range that separates merely unacceptable from runaway inflation. G. William Miller, the new chairman of the Federal Re serve Board, projects that inflation for the year is likely to average 6.5% to 7%. a higher forecast than the Administration's official prediction...
...sales were down for the first six months of the 1978 model-year, sales of compact and subcompact cars increased by 13%. The star performer at General Motors last month was the boxy Chevette; its sales were up 84%, compared with a year ago. At Ford, Mustang sales rose 14%, while the new Fairmont is a stellar seller. Ford's lacocca puts himself in the position of a price-conscious buyer who has been out of the market for a few years and then visits a showroom to do some tire kicking. Says he sympathetically...
SEEKING DIVORCE. Jacqueline Carlin, 28, television guest actress (Kojak) and pitchwoman (Palmolive); from Cornelius ("Chevy") Chase, 34, comedy writer and actor who rose to fame with his pratfalls on NBC's Saturday Night Live; after 16 months of marriage, no children; in Los Angeles...