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...late-blooming life of the party (or what is left of it loyal to Mao), Chiang Ching has been variously explained as the chief inventor of the Cultural Revolution, the guiding force behind Mao, a vindictive Dragon Lady out for personal revenge, and a frustrated starlet seeking the limelight. Though she and Mao are rarely seen together, they dwell in apparent harmony in a villa on a spoon-shaped peninsula in Peking's South Lake...
...Alfie, the jolly Cockney philanderer, had a fairly exotic collection of birds. So did the Cockney star of the movie, Michael Caine, 33, who has played the field with nearly every available actress and model in the show-business aviary. Now he has found a rara avis indeed: Swedish Starlet Camilla Sparv, 23. Caine turned up with Camilla in London's Leicester Square Theater for the premiere of Murderers' Row. They've been dating for four months now, but when a reporter innocently asked if he would be getting married, Caine blanched. "She's my girl...
French Czar. By 1957, show-business people in France had begun, not very precisely, to call Levy "the czar of French cinema." He won the title, typically, on a gamble, bringing together an unknown starlet named Bardot and a neophyte director named Vadim. And God Created Woman cost less than $400,000, but Levy plastered the world with publicity and grossed ten times that much in the U.S. alone. He made a handful of other pictures, including four more with Bardot, but he had neither the money nor the skills of a long-run mogul...
...Stage. Even Mao's wife has been brought into the fray. At a rally of "art workers" and elite Red Guards, out came Mrs. Mao herself, starlet of the Shanghai silver screen in the '30s, to help the cause in her new role as deputy leader of the cultural revolution and cultural adviser to the army. Were she anyone but the chairman's wife, Chiang Ching, as Mrs. Mao is known from the Long March days, would long since have felt the sting of Red Guard scorn for sybaritic luxuries; she enjoys the perquisites of three servants...
...does seem a shame that the boys will only be able to listen to her voice. Still, the radio patter of Starlet Chris Noel, 24, who cut a pretty picture with Elvis Presley in Girl Happy, ought to be quite an improvement over the nightly propaganda noise that U.S. troops in South Viet Nam have been getting from the girl deejay they call Hanoi Hannah, the North Vietnamese version of Axis Sally or Tokyo Rose. To compete with Hannah, the U.S. Armed Forces Radio is having Chris tape a series of hour-long music and sweet-talk shows to broadcast...