Word: star
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fund raisers called the affair VIP Night on Broadway, and it was indeed that. Scores of celebrities, including TV Star Robin Williams, Historian Arthur Schlesinger Jr., Falsetto Tiny Tim and Actresses Claudette Colbert, Phyllis Newman, Lauren Bacall and Brooke Shields were on hand for a $24-a-seat variety show at the Shubert theater. Maureen Stapleton sang Gilbert and Sullivan's "The policeman's lot is not a happy one." Angela Lansbury borrowed a song from the musical Sweeney Todd, singing for the cops, No One Will Harm You. Those who paid $96-the price of one bulletproof...
...Yazdi returned to Tehran on the 747 that brought Khomeini home in triumph, and became Deputy Prime Minister for Revolutionary Affairs in the provisional government of Mehdi Bazargan. Although he gave up that post when he took over the Foreign Ministry, most Tehran observers believe that Yazdi's star is still ascending. A resident of the U.S. for 18 years, Yazdi has been mentioned as a possible candidate for the presidency should Bazargan, an old mentor from Tehran University days, decide not to run when the national election takes place...
...world's largest, wealthiest companies match wits with lumbering bureaucracies. Behold developing nations become Croesus-rich overnight. Watch capitalists try to raise billions for offshore drilling rigs taller than the Empire State Building, for supertankers bigger than aircraft carriers, for refineries that look like visions out of Star Wars. Be amazed as mesmerized millions of people place their bets on a future of abundant energy and hope for the best, in a game with rules so complex and fast changing that practically no one can understand them...
...Little Romance, Olivier has another crusty character role: a suave old coot of a Frenchman who plays fairy godfather to a pair of star-crossed lovers who are just 13. He is in delightful fettle and creates one classic bit, a gasping fit while reading a newspaper. Yet this is one latter-day Olivier film that has more going for it than its star. Director George Roy Hill (Butch Cassidy, The Sting) and Screenwriter Allan Burns (cocreator of TV's original Mary Tyler Moore Show) have constructed a romantic comedy that, for all its contrivances, offers an indecent amount...
Vanessa Redgrave is committed. She is also between acting jobs. Thus the fiery star can be found, these pre-election days in Britain, stumping the decaying Moss Side district of industrial Manchester, red hair flowing and red rosette of the Workers Revolutionary Party flapping. Redgrave seeks to become Moss Side's Member of Parliament, but most of the voters she accosts appear more concerned about jobs and high living costs than the party's proposal for a workers' militia to replace the British bobby and its jeremiads against capitalism and the monarchy. Even for such an illustrious...