People: Jan. 26, 1981

Those folks in the choir robes are Jill Clayburgh and Walter Matthau in a scene from their new film First Monday in October, due out this fall. In the movie, named after the first sitting of the high court each autumn, Matthau, 60, plays a crusty, liberal Supreme Court Justice. Clayburgh, 35, portrays a conservative Californian who becomes the first woman appointed to the high court. Though Matthau gets entangled in legal briefs, First Monday will be one of the few films in which he will not pad around in an undershirt and boxer...

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