Word: havilland
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...version of Anastasia shot in Vienna for broadcast this winter. According to Amy Irving, the producers picked her first. When she passed, the role was offered to Nastassja Kinski. Then, for reasons as inscrutable as Rasputin's stare, Kinski was out and Irving was back in. Why? Olivia de Havilland, who plays Anastasia's grandmother, notes that Irving "looks very much like Anna Anderson." Kinski is not talking. Irving cites the signing-on of Rex Harrison, who plays Grand Duke Cyril and with whom she co-starred on Broadway in 1983. "Rex's being involved helped change my mind," says...
Profits, of course, have never been out of fashion in North America. Yet now there is greater interest in the private sector. Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mulroney last year sold De Havilland Aircraft to Boeing for $113 million and was promptly attacked for making the deal at "fire-sale" prices. Retorted the Conservative leader: "I don't believe that government should do what private industry can do better." Mulroney may next take offers for Air Canada, the national airline, and may even entertain bids for Canada Post, the country's mail service...
...aircraft, a Bell 206 JetRanger helicopter with five aboard and a twin- engine de Havilland Otter carrying 20 others, are owned by two of the 40- odd firms that run aerial tours of the canyon. Sightseeing flights are the bane of local environmentalists, who hate the noise, and air-safety experts, who say that too much traffic crowds the canyon's skies. The National Park Service estimates that more than 50,000 flights are made over the 277-mile- long canyon annually. Last week's accident brings to 57 the number killed in 14 crashes around the canyon over...
...front of another word and making it a story: star's pets, star's cars, star's hairdressers. Linking the main stories are short takes like a celebrity birthday register or a "Paparazzi" section in which stills are flashed on the screen of, say, Olivia De Havilland out for Sunday brunch in Beverly Hills...
Signed to play the Queen Mother in the TV movie Charles and Diana: A Royal Romance, Olivia de Havilland, 66, added a little plump to her circumstances, a net gain of 10 Ibs. to be exact. The film over, the actress weighed in at the tony Sonoma Mission Inn near San Francisco for three weeks. There, in return for $4,725, she got 800 calories a day and a dawn-to-dusk dose of warmups, aerobics, slimnastics and martial-arts classes, plus visits to the Jacuzzi and herbal wraps (using herb-soaked Irish linen sheets). Olivia's gross loss...