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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Trudeau logically. After all, Pierre Trudeau had just told sons Michel, Justin and Sacha and the rest of Canada something that had been anticipated since Conservative Prime Minister Joe Clark's government lost a vote of confidence two weeks ago. With a general election scheduled for Feb. 18, three-time P.M. Trudeau was ending his brief political retirement to lead the Liberals once again. Before the campaign gets into gear, there is another urgent party matter: Christmas birthdays for both of Michel's brothers. Justin will be eight, Sacha...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Dec. 31, 1979 | 12/31/1979 | See Source »

...screen star, in the tradition of Shirley Temple, Liv Ullmann and Miss Piggy." When the audience good-naturedly boos one of her jokes, she exclaims: "The crowd turns on the diva. [Pause] But the diva doesn't care!" Her singing, much of it done with three saucy young women called the Harlettes, is no threat to Streisand, or even Minnelli. But it bursts with feeling-almost too much for mere lyrics to express...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Midler: Make Me a Legend! | 12/31/1979 | See Source »

...pair's fights became almost epic in scope. "I liked a good fight like he did," Midler recalls. "But I didn't like any one to fight back, and he fought much harder than I did." She left him and fled to Paris for three months in 1974, only to return for several more rounds. The knockout came last February, and Bette dropped Russo as her manager...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Midler: Make Me a Legend! | 12/31/1979 | See Source »

...past three years Bette has been living with Peter Riegert, 32, the actor who played Boon, the social chairman of Delta Tau Chi, in Animal House, and the hero's best friend in Head over Heels. Though they live in Los Angeles, they have rented a loft in Manhattan for their trips East. Calm and low-key, Riegert seems to be the grounding for Bette's electric charge, her steadying influence. On stage, says Midler, she is "a character without fear, who has no problem being vulgar or outrageous. But in my private life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Midler: Make Me a Legend! | 12/31/1979 | See Source »

Farber is more convincing, even when he sits Barrere down (after dinner with Fred Astaire, the Jimmy Stewarts, Claudette Colbert, the Gregory Pecks and the Henry Fondas) and tells him his life story. It is an epic feature that includes three wives, mistresses, ups, downs and flashbacks from movie history. Farber is present at the Creation. After his theater chain folds he becomes production assistant to Mack Sennett at D.W. Griffith's Biograph studios in New York. Sennett and Mabel Normand carry on their Keystone Kops love affair; Harold Lloyd simulates climbing the side of a building...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Roll 'Em | 12/31/1979 | See Source »

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