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...Barbra Streisand? How about Pia Zadora? Yes, Pia Zadora, who confesses that she went out and bought five copies of the rave by Los Angeles Times Critic Leonard Feather, "hoping they wouldn't print a retraction." They didn't, and in the ensuing three months Zadora's U.S. concert tour has radically improved her image: cinema's laughingstock has suddenly blossomed into a serious singer of such pop classics as It Had to Be You, Maybe This Time and For Once in My Life. An album, Pia and Phil (short for Philharmonic), has also been well received. "I'm thrilled...
...They don't like you," Anglican Bishop Desmond Tutu told demonstrators outside the South African embassy in Washington. "They say you are Communist inspired. That means you are effective." The Nobel Peace prizewinner was starting a three-week, coast-to-coast tour of the U.S. to raise money, and it was only natural that he should join the demo, which has been going on intermittently for more than a year and on this day featured the singing of the folk group Peter, Paul and Mary. The rally left Tutu in obvious good spirits. "We will be free. There...
...briefly, but within a year he was fired again. At 58, Miller has, in a phrase coaches use on cut day, "resumed life" as a Dean Witter stockbroker. Norris Weese, the Bronco quarterback who finished the Super Bowl, visited Miller's office recently, and the coach gave him a tour of the different-size cubicles. "Like coaching," Miller says, "it's just a matter of putting in more hours than anyone else. I want to win the stockbrokers' super bowl. Hell, yes." XIII Pittsburgh Steelers 35 Dallas Cowboys...
...Simone wanted me to do the film," recalls Yves Montand, "but I was on tour at the time. When you play on stage you feel, I wouldn't say young, but good, and to suddenly age for a role. At first I said no." Simone, of course, is his late wife Simone Signoret. The film is Jean De Florette, based on the story by Marcel Pagnol and completed on location in southern France three months after Signoret's death in September. Montand, 64, agreed to do the part only after donning the mustache of his character, the mean-spirited neighbor...
...educating busy legislators on matters that are minor to them but major to our industry. Protecting business interests is not always bad. I am continually amazed at how little lawmakers know about the effect a bill will have on the public. Arleen Goodman Tennessee Association of Tour Operators Nashville...