Candice Bergen may have been called a lot of things, but ”spendthrift”
is not one of them. In fact, the actress admits she`s downright cheap. In the April issue of Redbook, she says that she recently rented an outfit from a friend when she needed something special to wear on ”The Tonight Show” and that she rarely goes to the beauty shop. She`s raising her daughter, Chloe, with the same values: ”I buy her the most inexpensive clothes. Chloe looks like a refugee compared to the way other kids are dressed.”
Pillow talk in the Nixon White House was rather formal. In fact, Dick often communicated with Pat by paper, and some of the notes have been collected in ”From: The President,” by Bruce Oudes (Harper & Row). When the man who was then the leader of the free world wanted some new bedroom furniture, this was how he told his wife: ”With regard to RN`s room, what would be most desirable is an end table like the one on the right side of the bed which will accommodate two Dictaphones as well as a telephone. In addition, he needs a bigger table on which he can work at night. The table which is presently in the room does not allow enough room for him to get his knees under it.” One can only guess at Mrs. Nixon`s response.
The movie business has changed drastically in the last 20 years. In
”Making Movies,” by John Russo (Dell), Oliver Stone, the writer and director of ”Platoon,” tells about some of the changes: ”I graduated from New York University Film School in 1971. Nobody would give me a job. No agent would represent me. I was writing about Vietnam, and the doors were closing in my face. Now, of course, in the `80s, you write a script, and it seems agents are falling all over themselves to read it. The emphasis is on youth, whereas this was not so in the 1970s.”
REPLAYS
”All men dream, but not equally.”
T.E. Lawrence
”(Dreams are) a way to . . . go safely and quietly insane each night.”
Edwin Diamond
”Too soft a bed tends to make people dream, which is unhealthy and weakening.”
Girl Scout Manual, 1913
