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...been a dozen years since he last danced, but Fred Astaire, who turned 85 last week, still cuts one of the most stylish silhouettes in show business. Or any business for that matter. Invited to a birthday dinner party by his legendary dance partner Ginger Rogers, 72, the natty octogenarian thanked "Ging" but opted for a quiet evening at home, explaining that turning 85 "is special enough." He still reads scripts, pursues his acting career, feels well and says, "I couldn't ask for anything more." Well, there is one thing: "I would like to have been able...
...Peggy Lee and Frank Sinatra; of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (commonly known as Lou Gehrig's disease); in Malibu, Calif. Pianist Jenkins started composing and arranging with the Swing Era's big bands, wrote Benny Goodman's closing theme, Goodbye, and won a Grammy Award for his stylish 1965 arrangement of Sinatra's It Was a Very Good Year...
After the Lebanese Army's heavy shelling of the southern suburbs last month, thousands of Shi'ite Muslim refugees fled to Ras Beirut, a largely Sunni Muslim neighborhood of stylish boutiques and comfortable apartments. Shaia Hoaijan and her five children moved into an abandoned flat. The owner had knocked holes in the roof and poured concrete down the toilet to fend off squatters, but within a week the place was habitable. "The owner's wife burst in and cursed us, demanding that we leave," she says. "But I told her we were not leaving because...
Detroit's factories are getting their workers closer to what they are making. At the plant where Pontiac builds its stylish Fiero, Manager Ernie Schaefer has eliminated one rank of supervisors, forcing responsibility on line workers. The pressure is on, he says, "to do it right the first time." At a Buick plant in Flint, Mich., a worker monitors the reliability of springs on a computer screen, rejecting those that do not measure up. Says Utilityman James Adkins: "I like it. It makes my job easier...
...Angeles. The result is a flat, dumbly brutal movie, full of overplotted complexity and empty of all emotional resonance, except that provided by the presence of Jane Greer (the original film's dark lady, here doing a supporting role) and Richard Widmark, who stalked many a stylish mean street in better movie days. Their participation is both a pleasure and a curse. Simply by lending their veteran gifts to this retread, they remind us that progress is not Holly wood's most important product...