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...Margret for the past eight years. So, in an upcoming television special titled Ann-Margret Smith, the pair will say their vows once more, this time with the groom in top hat and gray cutaway and the bride in white. That done, they will cycle into the sunset, tin cans trailing behind their Harley-Davidson. "Weddings are more fun the second time around, especially with the same man," claimed the again bride-to-be. Said Smith: "Maybe that's something Liz Taylor would understand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Nov. 3, 1975 | 11/3/1975 | See Source »

Blood, the dog, is no Rin Tin Tin. He curses like a trooper, puns, philosophizes, teaches, and even conjugates Latin verbs. In print, Ellison creates the character intelligently enough that the reader comes to believe, empathise and imagine him. But on the screen it doesn't work. The camera strips away that imaginative process and instead offers a voice-over for Blood's thoughts, making him sound like a disembodied canine version of Mr. Ed, spouting bits of arcane knowledge. If it sounds absurd, it is, and with the premise of A Boy And His Dog destroyed, the film slowly...

Author: By Jefferson M. Flanders, | Title: If Dogs Run Free... | 10/23/1975 | See Source »

...tyrannical studio director-plus cameo appearances by Victor Mature, Rhonda Fleming and some 60 Hollywood veterans. No matter that Won Ton Ton bears a striking resemblance to another German shepherd screen star of the same era. A Los Angeles judge has already decided against a producer of the Rin Tin Tin television series and the wife of the movie dog's trainer, who had charged Paramount Studios with unfair competition. Acting, after all, is a dog-eat-dog business...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Oct. 6, 1975 | 10/6/1975 | See Source »

...binding commitment to "index," or link, the price of commodities to the price of industrial goods, and an endorsement of a "new international economic order." In turn, the U.S. and other industrial states dropped their opposition to possible price-stabilizing agreements by producers of commodities like copper and tin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UNITED NATIONS: Barking Less and Liking It More | 9/29/1975 | See Source »

...drive to help restore long-lost prestige and sinking circulation (TIME, Feb. 10), have also decried that timidity. As Murray Olderman, who covered the case for the Newspaper Enterprise Association, put it: "Would the San Francisco papers have reacted in the same spirit of cooperation if a Bolivian tin heiress had been kidnaped instead of a local publisher's daughter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: All in the Family | 9/29/1975 | See Source »

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