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...wedding, but certainly the most congenial time for ballooning in the early morning breezes. After solemnly repeating their vows, Diane Baumbach, 39, a secretary, and Jerry Weiman, 33, an amusement park employee, clambered into the bridal balloon, which was decked with a rope of carnations, satin bows and dangling tin cans. Touching down an hour later, the newlyweds celebrated with champagne while onlookers recited the balloon prayer, beginning: "The winds have welcomed you with softness...
DIED. Jack Haley, 79, jovial Boston-born stage and screen comedian best remembered as the Tin Woodman, Judy Garland's fellow pilgrim on the yellow brick road in the 1939 MGM film classic The Wizard of Oz; of a heart attack; in Los Angeles. Haley parlayed his blue-eyed Irish good looks, comic flair ("Trouble is my best material") and talent for song and dance routines into a lucrative career that allowed him to all but retire after World War II as a millionaire real estate investor. Last appearance: in Norwood, a 1970 movie directed by his son Jack...
...Herzog, Wim Wenders?whose reputations as cinematographic cult figures rival those of the Truffauts and Godards who starred in France's Nouvelle Vague of the '60s. Director Volker Schlondorff won top honors at the Cannes Film Festival last month for his film version of Gunter Grass's classic, The Tin Drum...
MARRIED. Günter Grass, 51, eminent German novelist (The Tin Drum, The Flounder); and Ute Grunert, 43, an organist; in Wewelsfleth, West Germany; both for the second time...
...Festival jurors (among them Actress Susannah York and Indian Director Satyajit Ray) insisted Apocalypse split honors with The Tin Drum, an adaptation of the Günter Grass novel by West German Director Volker Schlondorff (The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum). It was the first time since 1973 that the Golden Palm had been awarded to two films. Some boos and jeers greeted the announcement of the decision. Cynics also noted Apocalypse did not have to contend with two popular films, Woody Allen's Manhattan and Milos Forman's Hair, both of which were screened outside of competition...