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...Yasmin. The match lasted only two years, but she remembered him fondly: "The world was magical when you were with him." There were two more marriages (to Crooner Dick Haymes and Producer James Hill), neither happy. "They fell in love with Gilda and woke up with me," was her rueful commentary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rita Hayworth: 1918-1987: The All-American Love Goddess | 5/25/1987 | See Source »

...work to London critics. With what must be unprecedented honesty he says he gave Dan Wagoner little solos in Aureole to keep him interested without handing him a fat part. Wagoner, Tharp, Senta Driver and Laura Dean all left Taylor to start successful troupes of their own. He is rueful: "They look to me for direction -- want tugs from their puppeteer boss -- and then snip the strings . . . competing with the great guy who first hired them. The nerve...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Among Marvelous Ants and Bees PRIVATE DOMAIN | 5/11/1987 | See Source »

That was in 1961, near the beginning of what those who know all the verses to Freight Train now call, with the rueful irony of survivors, the "great folk-music scare of the '60s." For the rest of the decade and part of the '70s too, Rush spent most of his time on the road, as he recalls now, playing concerts and club gigs, getting a lavender tan from stage lights, finding his moments of repose watching the mysterious turning, turning of airport carrousels, living a life that made more money than sense. A song he wrote in those cockerel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In New Hampshire: Skid Marks | 5/11/1987 | See Source »

...seven Oscar nominations (for films ranging from 1962's Lawrence of Arabia to 1982's My Favorite Year). On one level O'Toole is playing off public awareness of his decades-old reputation as a brawling, boozing boyo. As he puts it in an interview -- with a trademark rueful smile, offset by trademark wells of sadness in his deep blue eyes -- the message is, "You've seen him drunk, now see him sober...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Taming The Adorable 'Iggins PYGMALION | 5/4/1987 | See Source »

...Girbaud to the heavy assimilations of Go Silk, a new American line that seems to have been entirely inspired by Hamnett's deft work with lining fabric. "I was called 'possibly the most copied designer working today' in the Observer," Hamnett reflects, managing to sound proud and a touch rueful at the same time. Her clothes are available all around the U.S., but the fullest range can be found at the designer's showcase store on London's Brompton Road. Originally an automobile garage, the shop has enough floor space to comfortably accommodate menswear, women's clothes and a Roman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fashion: Been There, Seen That, Done That | 3/16/1987 | See Source »

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