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- PEOPLE, Page 63Love Boat I
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- By ALEXANDER TRESNIOWSKI/Reported by Wendy Cole
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- In its nine years on TV, The Love Boat offered many
- strange couplings of past-their-prime stars: Remember the
- episode when Shecky Greene romanced Florence Henderson? But
- stranger bedfellows there never were than the show's stately
- Captain Merrill Stubing and a former British Prime Minister,
- both of whom were in New York City last week for the splashy
- inauguration of the Regal Princess, the spanking-new supership
- in Princess Cruises' "Love Boat" fleet. Margaret Thatcher was
- on hand to christen the vessel, and crossed paths with Gavin
- MacLeod, the company's spokesman, in a piano bar aboard the
- ship. The two launched into a discussion of The Love Boat,
- which, though reruns still air in 93 countries, is apparently
- not Thatcher's cup of tea."It was very popular, I gather," she
- said, and later MacLeod admitted, "Once I explained it to her,
- she knew what we were talking about."
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- The next day, as Her Majesty's Band of Royal Marines
- played There Is Nothin' Like a Dame, Thatcher strode onto a
- floating barge for the ship's christening. "You don't have to
- be a millionaire to feel like a millionaire," she said, plugging
- the ship's virtues. Thatcher disembarked before the gala Love
- Boat reunion, though Henderson (the show's second most frequent
- guest star, after Charo) was on hand. Has the former Prime
- Minister so quickly gone from steering a ship of state to
- shilling for a ship? Has the Iron Lady become the
- "How-Much-Will-I-Earn Lady"? Well, not exactly. Thatcher braved
- the fracas as a favor to her friend Lord Sterling of Plaistow,
- chairman of Princess Cruises' parent company, and received no
- fee for her efforts.
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