Flouncing into Melbourne to present Australia's annual TV prizes, which are rather aptly called Logies, Gina Lollobrigida flummoxed the press with some rather antipodal thoughts. To a reporter curious about the origins of the half-inch-square diamond flashing on her finger, she snapped: "I don't have a Richard Burton. I have to pay for everything myself." La Lollo's plight may stem from her views on marriage, which she tried once. "You should marry to have children," she counseled. "There's no need otherwise." Never? "I suppose 80 would be the best age to get married," she concluded. "Then there isn't much time for things to go wrong."
Poor Richard
Meanwhile back in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, Elizabeth Taylor, not yet 80 but proudly repossessed of a Richard Burton, discovered that her husband's diplomatic skills are not limited to diamond-giving. The occasion was a press conference cohosted by none other than Mexico's President Luis Echeverria. The news was a scheme compensating peasants whose coastal lands have been nationalized as a park near the Burtons in this once-quiet fishing village. Burton, in explanation of his sympatico with the cause, noted, "I'm a child of poor people, miners, so of course my leanings are to the left, but not as far as my good friends Marshal Tito or Brezhnev." Naturally, though, the properties expropriated did not include the lovely hillside area where the Burtons reside and which is known as "Gringo Gulch."
Plumbed Depths
Sprung on bail pending appeal and prior to his latest indictment, Watergate burglar (and prolific novelist) Howard Hunt had, according to one report, sought the assistant librarianship at the Allenwood, Pa. federal pen. (The chief librarian post had already been consigned to former congressman Cornelius Gallagher, doing time for tax evasion.) But, believe it or not—book reviewers will have little trouble—aptitude tests indicated that Hunt really was better suited for maintenance work. Maybe Hunt was meant to be a plumber after all.
Gay Lip
The indomitable Bette Davis, 65, is midway through a 23-city lecture tour in which she screens clips from her films and then takes the stage to banter with the audience and answer questions. Item: asked at one stop what she thought of Gay Liberation, Miss Davis responded, between ferocious drags on her cigarette: "I've nothing for or against it. After all, there isn't much in it for me."
It's a Gas
Maryland Governor Marvin Mandel broke up the recent Governors' Conference with this story. Seems that a Maryland trooper was called upon to deliver a baby in one of those from-here-to-Sunday gas lines. After the child had safely arrived, the state trooper scolded the new mother, "Madam, if you knew you were this close to the baby coming, why did you ever get in this long gas line?" "Baby coming?" retorted the woman, "I wasn't even pregnant when I got in line."
Charles and Lyn
On Saturday evening, they celebrated their tenth anniversary (tin) with a small private party. He gave her five jeweled bracelets of entwined hearts and a tin can containing a $30,000 check. On Monday morning before setting off for work, he kissed her goodby and pointed to his tie, "It's the one you gave me on Valentine's Day." An hour later his lawyer called her up. "Charles wants a divorce," he said. And that's how Lyn Revson, 42, heard that Charles Revson, 67, president of Revlon Inc. and worth a reputed $200 million, had decided to call it a day. It was a second marriage for both. She retaliated by engaging super-lawyer Louis Nizer.
Kitty's Litter
"They'll have to keep the Long Branch going, but I don't know who will run it," says Amanda Blake (a/k/a/ Miss Kitty) of Gunsmoke's Dodge City saloon, from which she is finally retiring after 19 years. While the CBS series loses its Kitty, Amanda will be concerned with bigger feline game. "I'm going to devote practically all my time to my cheetah-breeding program," disclosed Amanda. She and her husband Frank Gilbert have raised five of them as pets in their Phoenix home and are preparing for an eight-week trip to Africa, because "we're extremely involved in the preservation of this animal."
Saved by the Bell Reunion
The hookups, the meltdowns, the memoires
The case reveals what was really going on what they think of each other now!
