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Hollywood, the shotgun marriage of art and industry, is never more schizophrenic than at Christmas. With its few "serious" movies (Yentl, Silkwood, Terms of Endearment), Tinseltown acts as pious as a tot on Santa's knee, straining to prove that it has been a model of decorum all year long, daring to ask for a big shiny Oscar. But with its "entertainment"pictures, Hollywood yearns to play Kriss Kringle, filling every Christmas stocking with a cheap thrill or a giddy giggle. So slapdash are these entertainments that the industry looks to be holding a year-end fire sale, with...
...movie begins with anxious, ferocious Aurora Greenway (Shirley MacLaine) clambering up over the side of her baby's crib and hurling herself on the tot, hysterically convinced that she has only seconds to administer the kiss of life to her darling Emma and save her from crib death. Naturally, all she does is disturb a healthy infant's sleep. From this scene it is obvious that Terms of Endearment is a comedy...
...fellow Frenchman Alain Colas in 1973-74. Jeantot's large monohull also set new race records for the fastest noon-to-noon run (240 miles) and seven-day run (1,552 miles). In France, an instant national hero was born. Jeantot, Superstar; Jeantot, King of the Sea; Jean-tot, the Absolute Conqueror, toasted the French press, which sent 52 representatives to cover his victorious arrival in Newport...
...future. Mailer is now a proud, picture-packing papa, ready to draw his wallet at the least provocation. The walls of the Brooklyn apartment are covered with photographs of the eight Mailer children; mixed in is an old-fashioned studio shot of little Norman, a well-scrubbed tot with jug ears and a mischievous smile. Mailer's and Norris' son, John Buffalo, 5, lives at home and basks in his father's obvious pride. The two other sons and five daughters drop by when they are in the neighborhood for visits of unpredictable lengths. The atmosphere...
...hardly had 1982's bond market bulls had a chance to tot up their winnings when much of the euphoria that accompanied the rise in bond prices began to fade. Prices have begun to weaken ever so slightly, and interest rates have started to nudge upward. Reason: fear is spreading that inflation, a mortal menace for all fixed-income investments, could resume with a vengeance if the economy comes out of its doldrums. Says Raymond Dalio president of Bridgewater Associates Inc., a Connecticut-based economic and investment consulting firm that was strongly bullish on bonds last winter and spring...