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Mayor Young and most of Detroit's citizens were deservedly pleased with their city's performance. Said Young: "Our objectives have been realized. We felt the convention would give us a chance to portray Detroit in a new light, rather than as a crime-ridden, no-hope city." A good many delegates would be willing to return. "We're booked to leave the first thing tomorrow," lamented Nevada Alternate Delegate Mahlon Faust as the convention ended. "We didn't think Detroit would be this interesting...
...Rather, as she observes, "it's a strange sensation to play myself." Sophia is less flustered by her other part in Sophia, a TV movie based on A.E. Hotchner's 1979 biography. Indeed, she needs little more than a blond wig and her own vivid memories to portray her stunning mother, Romilda Villani, now 64. "My mother is everything," says the adoring daughter. "She is beautiful, instinctive and with the craziness of the artist in her, something I've had to control in myself." Sophia plays Mama to Letizia d'Adderio, 9, and two other young...
Spacek, that marvelously lithe, tiny creature from the innards of Texas, manages to portray Carolyn Cassady with a gleaming, wry smile and a gentle Southern voice that can say things like "Something had ended--they used to call it innocence," and almost get away with...
Environmental Concerns: It is certainly not accurate to portray me or the industry as anti-environmentalist. We are making a plea for proper balance between clean air and water, and the dire need for energy. I think the industry has a good record. The problems are brought about by a few obstructionists who have used environmental legislation in a manner never intended by the legislators. These obstructionists are basically antibusiness groups and "no-growth" theorists. Some have been appointed to influential Government jobs...
Twentieth Century Fox paid Robert Redford $3 million to portray penologist Tom Murton in the film Brubaker, released last week. Tom Murton's lifetime earnings will probably never total $3 million. Or even $2 million...