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- <title>
- Dec. 19, 1994: People
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1994
- Dec. 19, 1994 Uncle Scrooge
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- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
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- PEOPLE, Page 83
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- <body>
- <p>By David E. Thigpen
- </p>
- <p> More Action, Less Talk
- </p>
- <p> Perfect cheekbones and an endearingly goofy wit have made
- GEENA DAVIS a beguiling presence in films like Thelma and Louise
- and her new release, Speechless, in which she and Michael
- Keaton play speechwriters for opposing candidates. "Our script
- was around before the Matalin-Carville story," she says. Yet
- Davis seems to yearn for less talk and more action--just the
- sort of thing her husband, Die Hard 2 director RENNY HARLIN, is
- good at. Now in Malta, the couple is filming a pirate adventure
- called Cutthroat Island, and next up is Long Kiss Goodnight, in
- which Davis will play a homemaker with amnesia who suddenly
- remembers that she's a spy. Davis wanted that role so much that
- she and Harlin paid $4 million for the script.
- </p>
- <p> After Lunch, Hoops de Jure
- </p>
- <p> CHARLES BARKLEY, the rambunctious Phoenix Suns basketball
- superstar, is planning to run for Governor of his home state of
- Alabama in 1996, and he went to Washington last week to discuss
- politics with a man he admires--CLARENCE THOMAS. The two spent
- four hours talking over lunch at a restaurant, and Barkley came
- away impressed. "Barkley sees him as a political mentor," says
- someone who was present, "and the Justice saw that Barkley is
- hungry for direction." After lunch, the two court stars played
- some one-on-one at a local gym, and then attended Senator Strom
- Thurmond's birthday party.
- </p>
- <p> Homeless Single Mom
- </p>
- <p> Life is not so easy for the Duchess of York. "I'm a
- separated mother of two," she says. "I'm not on the royal
- payroll." The former SARAH FERGUSON is facing a new crisis: the
- mansion near Ascot she's been renting has been sold out from
- under her. She and Princesses Beatrice, 6, and Eugenie, 4, must
- vacate by Jan. 1. Unwilling to see his family left out in the
- cold at Christmas, Prince Andrew offered to let them stay with
- him at Sunninghill, the home the couple built. Fergie won't go
- back. "I'm trying to find a place of my own," she insists.
- </p>
- <p>SEEN & HEARD
- </p>
- <p> Besides excellent breeding, JACQUELINE KENNEDY ONASSIS
- bequeathed her children, JOHN JR. and CAROLINE, a 15-room
- apartment on Manhattan's Fifth Avenue. Now the simpler-living
- young Kennedys have put it up for sale. They are asking $9
- million and insisting that before potential buyers view the
- apartment they sign a secrecy agreement.
- </p>
- <p> It is indeed a lucky man who successfully turns to HOWARD
- STERN for help. Emilio Bonilla called Stern's radio show from
- a bridge in New York City to say he had nothing to live for.
- Stern cracked jokes until police made a rescue. Said Stern
- later: "The guy was so annoying, at one point I was going to
- tell him to jump."
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