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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Elizabeth Taylor Hilton Wilding Todd Fisher Burton Burton Warner, 49, did it again last week. Or rather, she undid it again. Confirming rumors that her seventh marriage to her sixth husband was shaky, Liz and Republican Senator John Warner, 54, said they would seek a legal separation after five years of marriage. Warner joins an illustrious cast from Liz's previous marital flings: Hotelier Conrad Hilton Jr. in 1950; British Actor Michael Wilding in 1952; Producer Mike Todd in 1957; Singer Eddie Fisher in 1959; and Actor Richard Burton in 1964 and again in 1975. In the early stages...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Jan. 4, 1982 | 1/4/1982 | See Source »

Rickie Lee Jones: Pirates (Warner Bros.). Tales of lovers, losers and wanderers, delivered with a bopster's inflection and the sidling sensuality of a carhop...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Best of 1981: Music | 1/4/1982 | See Source »

Mobil, however, has been ham-handed in its efforts to buy another oil company. Some industry observers blame its failures on the insistence of Chairman Rawleigh Warner and President William Tavoulareas that they plan their own tactics without consulting outside advisers. Mobil lost out to Du Pont in the contest for Conoco by coming in with a low bid. Its initial $5.1 billion offer for Marathon in October was also immediately denounced as "grossly inadequate" by the company's president, Harold Hoopman. Said a leading investment banker: "If Mobil had bid $126 a share from day one, instead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Clash of the Titans | 12/21/1981 | See Source »

...cost (sometimes as little as a dollar a day) to rent it? Now the movie companies want in. "We couldn't continue to invest millions of dollars to feed this market and not get any of it back," says Leon Knize, senior marketing vice president for Warner Home Video, explaining why his company has switched from a sales to a rental-only policy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: Saved by the Numbers | 12/14/1981 | See Source »

DUCK YOU HEAD-LOWLA BRIDGIDA! reads the sign on a Grand Canal ponte, just before one of Friz Freleng's manic critters slams into the lintel at full frontal force. The warning applies also to those attending this compilation of old Warner Bros, cartoon shorts. Beware of low gags, supersonic mayhem, polka-dot undershorts and the occasional smack in the puss-Sylvester J. Pussycat, to be precise. There is much unfettered mirth here from the rest of the Warner menagerie: from Bugs, the Cagney of lagomorphs, who plays Galahad and slickshooter to the splenetic Yosemite...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Rushes: Dec. 14, 1981 | 12/14/1981 | See Source »

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