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...seems to have to ability to walk into major projects. He must be a lucky man, evidenced by his version of how he got involved with King of Marvin Gardens: "I knew Rafelson and I met his wife in New York, who told me he was going to Big Sur to think about his new film. This was just after Five Easy Pieces. I called him and convinced him to hire me to come out and talk about what his new film should be. It was very much writtern-to-order, incorporating elements I really wanted to deal with, like...
...quickly law rallies around and sustains even a bad decision. Reporters often promise confidentiality to get a story; if they can routinely be made to break such promises in court they become an unwilling "arm of the law." So in practice some judges have ordered confidential documents sur rendered only if three tests are met: that there is a "compelling state interest"; that the evidence sought can be shown to be relevant ("particularity"); and that it cannot be obtained in any other way. But in the Jersey case, the lawyer asked for everything. The judge made no attempt to narrow...
...male leads a few years ago is somewhat surprising [see below]. At any rate, Annie Girardot plays Inspector Lise Tanquerelle with an undeniable charm and self-assurance. She is something of a superwoman, what with a successful career in a male-dominated world, a child (she is, bien sur, divorced), and a beautiful home in the suburbs. Not to mention the fact that she is inordinately attractive for a woman...
More than two months after the theft of Charles Chaplin's remains from a grave in the Swiss village of Corsier-sur-Vevey, police last week recovered the body in a cornfield near Lake Geneva. The kidnapers, it turns out, were a Polish car mechanic and his Bulgarian accomplice. The motive? Money. The pair have been telephoning Chaplin's widow, Oona, for several weeks, demanding at first $600,000 in ransom. Police tapped the calls through it all, and finally closed in on one of the robbers in a Lausanne phone booth. The idea for the grisly theft...
...days. The fashion follies packed every hotel in Paris, attracting 130,000 visitors, including more than 4,000 U.S. buyers. With blaring rock music, laser-beam lighting, nightlong partying, topless models, onstage horses and at least one fistfight, the City of Light became Hollywood-sur-Seine...