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- <title>
- Oct. 03, 1994: People
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1994
- Oct. 03, 1994 Blinksmanship
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- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- PEOPLE, Page 87
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- <body>
- <p>By Ginia Bellafante
- </p>
- <p> Almost Like A Virgin
- </p>
- <p> She is unfulfilled by a life of carousing in black leather bras,
- so MADONNA claims she is trying to reinvent herself--as a
- housewife, no less. In an interview with a British magazine,
- the singer suggested that her career has been damaged by her
- raciness. What she craves now is kids and a man "who's like
- Robert Redford in The Way We Were." And she says she is giving
- up sex for now. "Because I've taken my clothes off in public
- doesn't mean that I've revealed every inch of my soul." Madonna
- may be putting us on--as she does her bra.
- </p>
- <p> Smile and Go to a Tool Show
- </p>
- <p> MERRILL MARKOE, a former writer for David Letterman whose decade-long
- romance with him ended in 1987, is not unfamiliar with the sorrows
- of the heart. Now, self-healed and terminally cheerful, she
- has compiled all of her mood-improvement wisdom in a send-up
- of self-help--a book called How to Be Hap-Hap-Happy Like Me.
- Her advice: "Visualize the future in which the world will be
- a better place...Attend a trade show or convention." Says
- Markoe, who will see her old flame when she appears as a guest
- on Late Show next month: "I'm hoping the book will sell because
- people will be deluded enough to think they'll learn from it."
- </p>
- <p>The King of Recovery
- </p>
- <p> Just last winter MICHAEL JACKSON's future seemed hopelessly
- stark. He'd been accused of molesting a 13-year-old boy, he'd
- become addicted to painkillers, and he had canceled his world
- tour. Now, after learning that Jackson's accuser has declined
- to testify against him (the boy's family received an undisclosed
- settlement), the L.A. district attorney has decided not to press
- the sex-abuse charges. A much relieved Jackson, who will soon
- release a greatest-hits collection, stated, "Lisa Marie and
- I look forward to getting on with our lives" and "raising a
- family."
- </p>
- <p>SEEN & HEARD
- </p>
- <p> Author ANNE RICE is not a woman who keeps her strong opinions
- to herself. When TOM CRUISE was cast to star in the film version
- of her novel Interview with the Vampire, Rice noisily objected.
- After seeing the film, which will be released later this fall,
- she has changed her tune, phoning Cruise to congratulate him
- and taking out ads to proclaim her newfound confidence in the
- actor (not to say her interest in furthering the movie). Cruise's
- performance, she bugled, is "courageous."
- </p>
- <p> In another, more startling reversal, former First Lady NANCY
- REAGAN allowed that she supports a woman's right to choose abortion.
- The erstwhile pro-lifer made her surprising statement at a forum
- on presidential spouses at George Washington University. Nancy's
- change of heart is sure to please her estranged daughter, the
- vociferously liberal PATTI DAVIS.
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