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...enlisted the help of an old friend when she introduced To Love a Child, the theme song for her pet cause, the Foster Grandparents program. Even without a rehearsal, the First Lady and Frank Sinatra, 66, managed a creditable duet. The number is the work of Veteran Songwriters Hal David, 61, and Joe Raposo, 45. (Sample lyrics: "To love a child/ You start with a smile/ And after a while/ A hug and a kiss/ It takes no more than this/ To love a child.") Sinatra's solo recording of the song precedes by a month the publication...
...first man-o'-war of England's fledgling Royal Navy and a special source of pride to Henry VIII, founding genius of that noble institution. In 1509, Bluff King Hal named the 130-ft., 700-ton, four-masted carrack, which became the vice flagship of his royal fleet, Mary Rose, after his favorite sister. But on July 19, 1545, the willful monarch looked on appalled at Southsea Castle, near the historic naval town of Portsmouth, as the top-heavy Mary Rose capsized and sank in 40 ft. of water while repelling the attack of a French armada...
...distance. Because it provides no explicit answers and only half-baked questions, we are forced to read things into it that may or may not be there. The audience guesses that Alex is an insecure dreamer; but in the context of the film itself-in the world according to Hal Ashby-we have very little basis for this judgement. Lookin' To Get Our leaves us feeling empty, wanting a great deal more than this film has to give. But like the slot machines of Las Vegas, it rarely pays...
...Wall Street, Hal Chefitz, an analyst with the brokerage firm of Gintel & Co., voiced a widespread view. Said he: "Use of the name Tylenol is dead." Advertising executives, who have more than a passing interest in the subject-it was aggressive advertising and promotion by Johnson & Johnson that catapulted Tylenol into its lead position-were not so sure...
Directed by Hal Ashby...