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Nearly 6.5 million copies have now been sold. The success of Boston was so left field-as abrupt, decisive and cleaving as one of Leader Tom Scholz's guitar breaks-that the group came to be treated as if it had been freshly cloned for stardom. When Boston went back into the studio to make their second album, much hope was raised, but many doubts lingered. The new album, out a little more than a month, could settle the score. Don't Look Back shot to the upper regions of the charts; the album's title track...
DIED. Robert Shaw, 51, fiery character actor, novelist and playwright who parlayed his rugged good looks and powerful screen presence into late-blooming Hollywood stardom; of a heart attack; in Tourmakeady, Ireland. Shaw wrote five novels, critically acclaimed in his native Britain, and rewrote one, The Man in the Glass Booth, as a successful Broadway play directed by Harold Pinter. But he was best known as an actor, first on the London stage (Tiger at the Gates, The Long and the Short and the Tall), later in American movies, where he portrayed a wide-ranging gallery of rogues. Among them...
MARRIED. Mickey Rooney, 57, pint-size powerhouse actor whose film career began when he was five as a cigar-chomping troublemaker on two-reelers and later led to television stardom; and Janice Darlene Chamberlin, 39, a singer and writer, and close friend of four years; he for the eighth time, she for the second; in Thousand Oaks, Calif. Confided the bride about her new husband: "Mickey believes so much in the institution of marriage that I can't disappoint...
Today Peronism is brutally suppressed by Argentina's military government. Yet the mystique of Juan and Eva continues. She, especially, has achieved an international moment of posthumous pop stardom. Evita, a musical based on her life, is now a hit in London, and will probably be brought to Broadway...
...Bucks. There is a splendidly absurd contract-signing orgy, involving some expensive and schizophrenic kidding of the rock world's overdose of money, and soon Frampton has forgotten all about Strawberry Fields (Sandy Farina), the sappily beautiful girl back home. "A difficult one-week rise from obscurity to stardom," as one of the film's captions puts it, follows...