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Anyone who doubts that genes influence behavior should see the mice in Marc Caron's lab. These tireless rodents race around their cages for hours on end. They lose weight because they rarely stop to eat, and then they drop from exhaustion because they are unable to sleep...
...rode into town with an abrupt announcement: the post office was leaving the central site it had occupied for 80 years, preferably for a car-friendly location amid the strip malls and burger joints out of town. "They met with us on a Tuesday," says stunned city-council member Caron Cooper. "On Wednesday there was an ad in the paper soliciting bids for land." Dan Glick, a community activist, is peeved: "Those people gave us more say on whether the Elvis stamp would show the new Elvis or the old Elvis than they did on the future of our town...
...when MGM auctioned off a good part of its priceless heritage, Reynolds was there to buy costumes worn in some of the studio's famous films, including Leslie Caron's plaid suit from Gigi and Clark Gable's uniform from the 1935 Mutiny on the Bounty. "I just started buying on an emotional level," she says. "But after I had bought all this stuff, it struck me: Wouldn't everybody love to see this?" For years, without avail, she tried to interest moguls in financing a movie museum in Hollywood. Then she rolled sevens in Vegas...
...Beatty (who produced the film and co-wrote it with Robert Towne) was drawn to this story; for a famous womanizer, it must have emotionally autobiographical elements. But he also recognized that maidenly virtue and religiously inspired guilt are tough sells these days. Under Glenn Gordon Caron's uninflected direction, there are no chapels (though a distressingly feeble Katharine Hepburn appears as the aunt), the couple consummates quickly, and the 90-day wait for their famous date atop the Empire State Building is motivated by no more than a postcoital fear of rushing into something. Not much suspense in that...
...Caron changed his stance on the seat belt law after it saved his life in a car accident. Gray, the law's original sponsor, attributes much of the bill's support to Caron...