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...swears he was unaware of their relationship. Says Beatty: "We didn't want to place a burden on the people we were working with." Since the movie wrapped, they have awaited their child, who will be a girl, living quietly in Beatty's 37-acre aerie at the very tip-top of Mulholland Drive. Santo Pietro's is a half mile away, and it is no routine Italian joint. The Beverly Glen Centre has perhaps the greatest celebrity concentration in town. Beatty is a regular, as is Jack Nicholson, who lives across the road from him. Marlon Brando lives nearby...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Playboy Meets Miss Right | 12/9/1991 | See Source »

...hooked on it, is a hard habit to break. Like God, Henry thought . . ."); some manic riffs on fame ("That dumbbell the Duke of Windsor he threw in the sponge for a tart. You want the Duke and Duchess for a charity ball, you rent them like a tux from Tip-Top"); and the most furiously original cast of buccaneers, entrepreneurs, intellectuals and whackos north of Niagara Falls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Ringmaster | 5/14/1990 | See Source »

...Midshipmen are in tip-top shape. They beat the men's lacrosse team, 10-9, in the first round of the NCAA Tournament. The Middies go on to get crushed by Syracuse, 23-9 in the Carrier Dome...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Agony, Ecstasy and Even a Few Titles | 5/25/1988 | See Source »

...Tip-top pageantry for all but the most committed parade hater. -- To skate into the medal round, the U.S. team must (and probably will) win its opening game...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Olympic Preview: A Viewer's Guide | 2/15/1988 | See Source »

...Ottos everywhere, but hardly any Kimberlys. Evelyn Waugh periodically had to reassure Americans that he was not a woman and that Evelyn was quite a common name for boys in England. Or as Peter Lorre whined in Beat the Devil, "In Chile the name of O'Hara is . . . a tip-top name. Many Germans in Chile have come to be called O'Hara...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: What's in a Name? | 8/18/1986 | See Source »

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