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...TALE opens, a royal bride-to-be, drawn from and adored by the commoners, prepares to wed a prince she does not love. Sound familiar? It is a subplot of The King and I. Like the woman in the famous musical, Princess Buttercup (played by Robin Wright) yearns for another, a farmboy whom she thinks is dead...

Author: By Ross G. Forman, | Title: Refried Bride | 10/16/1987 | See Source »

OCTOBER Sat. at Vermont 1:00 p.m. Wed. 7 at B.C. 7:30 p.m. Sat. 10 at Cornell 11:00 a.m. Wed. 14 CONNECTICUT 3:00 p.m. Sat. 17 DARTMOUTH 11:00 a.m. Tue. 20 UMASS...

Author: By Colin F. Boyle, | Title: W. Booters Hound New Hampshire, 1-0 | 9/24/1987 | See Source »

...Danny Glover as Nelson and Alfre Woodard as his wife Winnie, Mandela, an HBO movie premiering Sept. 20 at 8 p.m. EDT, traces the couple's unfinished struggle against institutionalized racism in South Africa. It is also the melancholy love story of Winnie, now 50, and Nelson, 69, who wed during a break in his trial for treason and honeymooned while he was in the dock. Because of his political activities and 25-year-long imprisonment, the pair have spent only a few months of their married life together...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: One Star in a Huge Black Sky | 9/21/1987 | See Source »

...unreeled like so many bad movies. After her 1943 divorce from Judson came Orson Welles, but "Orsie," with whom she had a daughter Rebecca, was devoted mostly to Orsie. "I'm tired of being a 25% wife," she later said. In 1949, with the whole world looking on, she wed the playboy Aly Khan, with whom she had her second daughter Yasmin. The match lasted only two years, but she remembered him fondly: "The world was magical when you were with him." There were two more marriages (to Crooner Dick Haymes and Producer James Hill), neither happy. "They fell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rita Hayworth: 1918-1987: The All-American Love Goddess | 5/25/1987 | See Source »

...budding beauty leaves Aunt Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney's cloistered Long Island estate for an extended visit with her mother, Gloria Morgan Vanderbilt, in lively Beverly Hills. There she goes for older men, like the tall, dark and elusive Howard Hughes. She writes to a friend that she is to wed Van Heflin ("You've probably heard about him because he's a famous actor and he's going to be a Big Movie Star as soon as the movie he's doing now comes out"). But Mother V. pressures her into marrying Pat De Cicco, an undercapitalized Hollywood playboy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bookends: Apr. 27, 1987 | 4/27/1987 | See Source »

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