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...friendly acquaintance, Tatum feels most comfortable on a movie set. "You know everybody; it's like a family." She travels with Diane Lewis, a woman in her early 30s who has been her companion since she was small, and a friend called Esme, who is also her standin. Her only complaint about moviemaking is that in California?though not in England, where she filmed International Velvet?the law requires that child actors go to school for at least four hours a day. "On Little Darlings, the picture I just finished, we got in about three hours of work...
...elected to the Bundestag. In 1969, after two years as S.P.D. Bundestag floor leader, he entered Brandt's national Cabinet as Defense Minister. By the time Brandt began to lose his political authority Schmidt was West Germany's internationally regarded Finance Minister and the Chancellor's increasingly powerful standin. "When occasionally Willy wouldn't show up, it seemed perfectly natural that Helmut would take over the sessions," a Cabinet colleague recalls. Just as naturally, when Brandt resigned after the Guillaume scandal, Schmidt took over as Chancellor...
Spinks' early competition came straight from Palookaville. He easily dispatched his first opponent, a Brooklyn butcher named Lightning Bob Smith. Three first-round K.O.s followed, and in fight No. 5, Spinks' competitor withdrew at the last minute. A standin, signed just hours before the scheduled bout, left in a stupor after three rounds. By then, even Spinks' ho-hum matches against Journeyman Scott LeDoux and Italian Alfio Righetti could not dim his TV marketability...
Somewhere about 1942, for example, the play stops at Now, Voyager and the famous love scene in which Paul Henreid lights two cigarettes and hands one to Bette Davis. Durang's Henreid standin, a duplicate of double-breasted elegance, suavely does the same, but his Bette Davis is hilariously different. "I'm sorry," she says, "I don't smoke." The vision" of Henreid nervously puffing two cigarettes is a small jewel of farce...
...appalling technical problems, he is almost out of the woods and onto the sets of Producer Dino De Laurentiis' monster movie. While the $3 million Kong endured some final tinkering on his hydraulic hands last week, workers began fitting his horsehair covering onto a wood-and-Styrofoam standin. Once the suit is transferred to the star, the unnaked ape will team up with Actors Jeff Bridges and Jessica Lange for the storied chase through Manhattan streets and a climb to the 110th floor of New York's World Trade Center. Because the cost of King Kong has escalated...