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...puts it in perspective. She is happy to talk about some of her favorite leading men. Spencer Tracy (nine films with Hepburn, from Woman of the Year in 1942 to Guess Who's Coming to Dinner in 1967): "Spence was a magic actor, funny and quick." Gary Grant (Sylvia Scarlett, Bringing Up Baby, Holiday, The Philadelphia Story): "He was great fun. He had a wonderful sense of comedy." John Wayne (Rooster Cogburn): "He wasn't as clever as Spence, but a brilliant actor nonetheless, bigger than life in his performance?and often when he didn't have to be." Peter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Two Who Get It Right | 11/16/1981 | See Source »

routines about Sylvia, about to be fired, and Karl, who can't get a divorce, and Dorothy's Valium...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: The Morals of Gossip | 10/26/1981 | See Source »

...inconceivable to the merely outrageous. Meantime, Financial Columnist Sylvia Porter has advised: "Downgrade your housing dreams for a while. Share space. Rent. Consider a mobile home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: Downsizing an American Dream | 10/5/1981 | See Source »

Maybe B.P. was too much the gambler, more excited by the flow of the play than by the final totals. Maybe his long-running affair with Sylvia Sidney, then one of his most winsome discoveries, diverted attention just as the coming of sound and the Great Depression led to bitter executive battles at Paramount. And maybe he needed to prove that Ad was right after...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Presenting: The Missing Mogul | 7/27/1981 | See Source »

...paint job to the power gewgaws. Says Sergeant Richard Nazzaro, who with his partner found the car: "What caught our eye was that it was so sharp looking." Their eyes also caught an improper license plate; the driver was stopped and charged with possession of a stolen vehicle. Sylvia Horwitz is shaken by the recovery. "It was eerie," she says. At least the car may be safe: during the past decade someone installed an antitheft alarm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Americana: One-Owner Beauty | 7/6/1981 | See Source »

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