Paul Belmondo, 27, above, son of durable French screen idol Jean-Paul Belmondo, plans to marry Italian business student Luana Tenca, 19, this Sunday (July 8). Belmondo, who kept steady company with Monaco's Princess Stephanie in 1981, plans on driving the Formula One race-car circuit this year. He says that despite his betrothed's nervousness about his Grand Prix racing career, he won't put the brakes on. "[Tenca] wouldn't ask me because she loves me and because she knows that racing is my passion," Paul told Paris Match magazine.
ABC Prime Time Live correspondent Judd Rose, 36, married law student Sarah Strum, 32, in San Francisco on June 30. Rose was recently put down on live TV by Warren Beatty, who complained that he wanted to talk to host Diane Sawyer or Sam Donaldson. Rose met Strum on a plane—he sent her a drink, which she refused. Rose's brother, Roger Rose, says, "Judd has covered fires, floods and political summits, but he still couldn't get his wedding bow tie straight."
Country singer Hank Williams Jr., 41, married former Hawaiian Tropic suntan-lotion model Mary Jane Thomas, 26, below, on July 1 at a Congregational church near his ranch in Missoula, Mont. Williams, who won a Grammy last February for "There's a Tear in My Beer," an electronically created duet with his father, Hank Williams, took time off from his Lone Wolf concert tour to get married. He plans on taking a delayed honeymoon in September in Africa, the continent where he once said he could lead "the Hemingway life." The marriage is Williams's fourth, Thomas's first. He has three children: Shelton, 17, by his second wife, Gwen; and Holly, 9, and Hilary, 11, by his third wife, Becky. Of his latest marriage, Williams Jr. is in no doubt: "I've never been so happy in my life," he says. "Mary Jane is truly one in a million."
Author Irving Wallace, above, whose potboilers such as The Prize and The Fan Club sold by the millions despite often being labeled trash by literary critics, died June 29 in Los Angeles of pancreatic cancer, at age 74. Born in Chicago to Russian parents, he started out as a magazine journalist, but switched to writing movie scripts in the 1950s, including 1959's The Big Circus. Resenting what he called the "disdain" and "disrespect" suffered by Hollywood screenwriters, Wallace soon turned to writing novels, publishing The Chapman Report in 1960. The story of a group of Los Angeles women who take part in a sex survey quickly became a best-seller. In the next 30 years, Wallace followed with 15 other novels peppered with passion. Total sales of his books, including 17 nonfiction works, topped 120 million copies. Fellow author Sidney Sheldon says, "The proof of his talent lies in the fact that millions of people in the world love his works."
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