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...police are after him, suspecting him of murder. Some renegade CIA agents are also in nasty pursuit, convinced he helped repossess some missile plans that they went to a lot of trouble to steal from the Government. No question about it, mild-mannered Architect Michael Jordan (Gene Wilder) has to run for cover. But when he packs his bag, he pauses to match up his socks and then roll them up into prim little balls, just the way his mother taught...
SEEKING DIVORCE. Gilda Radner, 35, onetime Roseanne Roseannadanna and Ba-ba Wawa of Saturday Night Live; from G.E. Smith, 30, rock guitarist; after two years of marriage; in Hollywood. Radner and her husband split a month ago, after she and Actor-Comedian Gene Wilder teamed up both on and off the set of the film Hanky Panky, due out next month...
...sound a vehicle makes as it drops into the mud is a kind of ominous smush. Some people find it so depressing that they try to avoid mud season altogether. Jackie and Al Wilder, who run the Fork Shop Restaurant in Brookfield, closed up in March and went all the way to Europe. "Nobody can get to us over the mud anyway," says Al. They came home expecting tulips and sunshine and found instead all the pipes in their house frozen. It's not nice to avoid Mother Nature...
...troubled period for movies, when attendance is slipping and not even the presence of Burt Reynolds or Clint Eastwood can guarantee box office gold, Richard Pryor is the one actor whose name spells HIT. Stir Crazy, the comedy in which he co-starred with Gene Wilder as a bumbling convict, was the No. 3 moneymaking movie of 1981 and, except for National Lampoon 's Animal House, the most successful comedy in industry history. Pryor's other 1981 film, the sugar-and-spice Bustin' Loose, was also a moneymaker, establishing him as the only star to have...
Today the two women are acknowledged leaders in the fast-tracking field of microcomputers, and their six-year-old company, Vector Graphic Inc., stands out as one of the industry's wilder success stories. By offering a line of desktop computers more powerful than most personal computers but less costly than the larger machines that are usually sold to small businesses, the company has carved out a market niche largely overlooked by other competitors. Sales have zoomed from $404,000 in 1977 to $25 million last year, and more than 12,000 Vector Graphic systems have been installed around...