Advance title: The 26th Annual Grammy Awards. By the end of last week's prize-giving gala in Los Angeles, though, it had unquestionably become The Michael Jackson Show. Jackson, 25, nimbly walked off with the gold-plated gramophone eight times, a record record. Among other categories, he captured album of the year (Thriller), record of the year (Beat It) and best male pop vocal (Thriller). The sylphlike Prince of Pop even dominated the show's commercial breaks. His two eagerly awaited Pepsi-Cola ads made their debut during the 3½-hr. telecast. There was an unusual extra thrill for his tirelessly squealing fans when the soft-spoken superstar removed his dark glasses just once, explaining, "My friend Katharine Hepburn told me I should do it."
Like many a sun worshiper, Actress-Model Ann Turkel, 32, used to spend hours working on a seamless, all-over tan, but got tired of "always hanging out naked in my backyard." So she and her boyfriend, Austrian Designer Hans Buhringer, set out to find a solution to this two-tone torment. The result, appropriately, is called "the unsuit," available for men and women at $35 to $40 and made with a special cotton material that allows some, but not all, of the sun to shine through.
Says Turkel: "I don't know a woman who wants a white bottom and white breasts—it makes them look chunky."
Not everyone may be quite so concerned about running around in a bicolor birthday suit. But Turkel is not alone: she and Buhringer have already grossed $5 million.
She has long been a bombshell, on TV's Flamingo Road among other places. But in Time Bomb, an NBC-TV movie that will be aired later this month, Morgan Fairchild, 34, will add a more literal meaning to her reputation as a mankiller. Fairchild plays the leader of a gang of gun-toting terrorists who attempt to hijack a truckload of weapons-grade plutonium in Texas. "I hope it doesn't seem too Hollywood," Fairchild says. "I have this little porcelain face, and short of taking a hammer to it, there's nothing you can do." Still, the 100-lb. beauty says that she had fun "blowing away" burly Good Guy Merlin Olsen with her trusty AK-47. Says she: "It was like the ant who took Chicago."
Since she developed a knack for turning big behinds into big bucks, Activist-Actress-Activity Buff Jane Fonda, 46, has been speaking out more against flab than against the Government. But when Fonda announced plans to promote her new line of sweats and other workout clothes in a series of department stores throughout the country, a wave of resentment from her political past washed out her personal appearances one by one. Hundreds of angry callers, citing her antiwar actions during the Viet Nam era, detoured her scheduled stopovers in New Orleans, Miami and New York City (though she made quiet, unofficial visits to stores in both Miami and New Orleans). Finally, at Jordan Marsh in Boston, while two dozen Viet Nam veterans carried protest signs (JANE TRAITOR FONDA WE HATE YOU), the new booster of the free enterprise system did her thing. She was just a bit exercised about the earlier experiences, however, saying a sentence that might once have been directed at her, "The very small number of people [protesting]