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...huge painting of scarlet lips suspended over a landscape, the work of American-born Dadaist and Photographer Man Ray, sold Nov. 5 at Sotheby Parke Bernet in Manhattan for $750,000. It was by far the highest price ever paid at auction for a surrealist work...
Those must be the scarlet and white silks of the CBS-TV stable that Kristy McNichol, 17, is wearing as she sits astride a big mount named Gilford. The tomboy of the Family sitcom series stars this week in My Old Man, a TV movie in which she is Jo Butler, the track-wise daughter of a down-on-his-luck horse trainer, played by Warren Gates. The film is out of a short story of the same title by Ernest Hemingway, but the bloodline is a little thin. Joe Butler, the American boy in Hemingway's tale about...
Watching The Black Stallion is like spending two hours with a stack of National Geographies. Director Carroll Ballard's adaptation of Walter Farley's boy-and-horse novel consists of one stunning view after another: coral seas, scarlet sunsets, moonlit landscapes, stormy skies. Almost every shot is suitable for framing, and Ballard prefers it that way. Whenever actors step into the frame, the director dismisses them quickly; he seems to feel that characters are intruders who come around only to mess up his pretty pictures...
DIED. Merle Oberon, 68, arrestingly beautiful cinemactress who rose to fame in the '30s and '40s in such classics as Wuthering Heights and The Scarlet Pimpernel; after a stroke; in Los Angeles. Oberon was born Estelle Merle O'Brien Thompson on the island of Tasmania. Educated in India, she left for England in 1928, worked as an extra and dance hostess until she met and married Film Producer Alexander Korda. Her 1933 portrayal of Anne Boleyn in The Private Life of Henry VIII made her a star. Divorcing Korda in 1945, she went on to play such...
...Nine months later, the pair were married. For an Army wife, there was never a permanent home. "I have kept house in everything but an igloo," Mamie once said. "I long to unpack my furniture some place and stay forever." Their first child, Doud Dwight, died at three of scarlet fever. A second son, John, has had an Army career...