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...unexplained reasons, the Los Angeles agent did not wait that long. On May 19, 1970, Los Angeles Times Columnist Joyce Haber reported that an unnamed international movie star who supported the "black revolution" was "expecting." She added: "Papa's said to be a rather prominent Black Panther." Other details in Haber's column made it clear that she was referring to Seberg, who had moved to Paris in 1958 and become a star in French New Wave films such as Breathless after her amateurish performance in Saint Joan made her name a synonym for miscasting...
Everyone should be as un-copable as Erma Bombeck, the frumpy suburban housewife who masquerades as a success ful syndicated columnist and morning-show television commentator about things frivolous and familiar. Two months before publication, Bombeck's latest volume, Aunt Erma's Cope Book, has one of the biggest advance runs in publishing history: 700,000 copies in two printings, of which 500,000 have been snapped up by bookstores. If the huge press run does not sell, Aunt Erma has a remedy. Says she: "Either we're going to have a lot of doorstops around...
Those dread words New Hampshire are surfacing in the political columns again. Already. In the hot sun, long before the winter snows, Columnist Robert Novak of the team of Evans and Novak has been following George Bush around the state, busy making less ("It is doubtful he was seen by more than 100 registered Republican voters") sound like more (". . . could set the foundation for an upset transforming Republican politics...
...hell is Rula Lenska?" The question was first asked on the air by Detroit TV News Anchorman Don Lark, then echoed in print by Washington Post Columnist Roger Rosenblatt. She is, as many TV watchers know, a glamorous redhead who appears regularly in commercials for Alberto VO5 hair spray. She tosses her long locks, identifies herself as R-u-ula Lenz-z-zka and speaks of herself as though she were a famous actress. But, as the newscaster asked...
While the campaign is supposed to run for three years, the early returns have not been especially positive. Reflecting the feeling of many Aussies, a Sydney Morning Herald columnist groaned that the "half-witted" promotion seemed "calculated to appeal to a backward rural electorate in India." Worse still, critics quickly noted that Project Australia, as it is called, has some imported features: the new pep song is borrowed from the old American folk favorite Big Rock Candy Mountain, and the promotional pens being handed out are stamped MADE IN U.S.A. So far the drive has succeeded mostly in inspiring derisive...