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...either his public or his private life. He seldom smiled, and his voice lacked warmth or expression. His first marriage, to Egypt's Princess Fawzia, King Farouk's sister, ended in a 1948 divorce when the Shah concluded that she could not give him a male heir (a daughter, Princess Shahnaz, is now 39). Three years later, the Shah married Soraya Esfandiari, a beautiful Iranian commoner. He divorced her in 1958, again because the union failed to produce an heir. In 1959, he married Farah Diba, then a 21-year-old architecture student in Paris. Sensitive and compassionate...
...movies no longer explore these tensions; they have become exhibitions of a master puppeteer pulling high-tension strings. In Dressed to Kill, the marionettes on-screen still respond to De Palma's manipulations. Moviegoers may not, especially those who hoped that De Palma would become the heir to Hitchcock's throne rather than the scavenger of his vaults. -By Richard Corliss
...Silverman, an industry legend since he was programming chief at CBS, was also rumored to be on the way out. The latest sacking made RCA Chairman Edgar H. Griffiths, 59, look especially bad. Pfeiffer's executive decapitation came just three weeks after Griffiths summarily dismissed RCA President and Heir Apparent Maurice R. Valente, 51, whom he had recruited from I.T.T. only six months earlier...
...long-range ones. Above all, what effect will it have on his mother, at 62 an intensely private and relatively isolated political figure? For better or worse, the history of India since independence has been intertwined with that of the House of Nehru. With the removal of the heir apparent, the future of both the nation and the dynasty is more deeply mired in uncertainty than before...
...investigating the Triangle. On a fishing trip, he and his son are captured by these physically and morally repellent people. Caine is required to revitalize the stock in this inbred clan. His son (Jeffrey Frank) is considered by the pirates' leader (David Warner) to be his potential heir. It matters little to the pirates that the boy must be brainwashed and then encouraged to kill his father in order to prove his right to that dubious distinction...