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- January 4, 1982SHOW BUSINESSMOST OF '81
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- The Most Happy Fella: French Director Abel Gance, who lived
- just long enough to enjoy the huge success of the revival of his
- 1927 silent movie epic, Napoleon.
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- The Least Happy Fella: Fred Silverman, once known as TV's Man
- with the Golden Gut, who brought only heartburn to NBC and
- finally had no choice but to resign as president.
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- The Bravest Fella: Grant Tinker, who replaced Silverman as
- president of the beleaguered network.
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- The Most Nervous Fella: Dan Rather, who succeeded the
- venerable Walter Cronkite as anchorman of the CBS Evening News,
- only to watch the show's ratings fall sharply.
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- The Biggest Bomb (for the second year in a row): Michael
- Climino's Heaven's Gate, which was pulled back from distribution
- in 1980 for extensive re-editing, only to fail again when it was
- re-released in 1981.
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- The Five Richest Tourists: The Rolling Stones, whose concert
- tour of 29 U.S. cities pulled down some $35 million.
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- The Most Boring Swing Through the Jungle: John and Bo Derek's
- Tarzan, which managed to give a distinctly sour taste to both
- cheesecake and beefcake.
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- The Foxiest Fox: Elizabeth Taylor, who played Regina in a
- revival of Lillian Hellman's The Little Foxes, breaking house
- records from Broadway to Los Angeles.
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- Most Enduring Charmers: Katharine Hepburn and Claudette
- Colbert, who returned to Broadway and proved at 74 and 78, that
- age does not always wither, nor custom stale.
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