On the last leg of a honeymoon that commenced in Tahiti, Princess Caroline of Monaco and Philippe Junot strolled on the Ocean City, N.J., beach like a couple of locals. Joining them at the surfside home of Caroline's maternal grandma, Margaret Kelly, was Princess Grace. Instead of a little Saturday night fever at a neighborhood disco, Caroline and Philippe opted for a Gay Jitterbug. The horse, that is, whose jockey, Steve Cauthen, was presented the winner's cup by the newlyweds at the nearby Atlantic City race track.
After being besieged by the press, said Astronaut Candidate Margaret Seddon, 30, "you just want to be one of the guys." No such luck for the first six women launching NASA'S two-year training program with a crash course in water survival at the U.S. Air Force Base in Homestead, Fla. Zooming down a 45-ft. tower into warm, stagnant water, sliding under an open parachute, crawling in and out of at least three rafts and getting lifted up by a helicopter hoist, Astronaut Candidate Sally Ride, 27, screamed "No!" to a photographer who begged for "a happy look." Not all the astronautical hopefuls felt such aversion to media coverage. Pouted one of 42 men in the program: "We're mere commoners."
For the Rolling Stones, summer has been a whirlwind tour of the U.S. with a small army of technicians and groupies, to showcase a grab bag of gritty songs from a sizzling new album, Some Girls. On most of their dates, the Stones have rolled around ever-devilish Mick Jagger. But in Tucson, Ariz., the group added a bit of Sunbelt beauty to its act. Announced Jagger: "Now we're going to have a hometown girl sing with us and give her a chance." As any frequenter of Ronstadt's Hardware store in Tucson might have known, the guest was Linda Ronstadt herself, resting up at home with her parents before her next tour. Showing especially slim, sun-bronzed legs, the local torch singer joined sometime flame Jagger in a rendition of Tumbling Dice, a rocker she recorded on her own latest album, Simple Dreams. Home-crowd reaction: delirious.
It sounds like a case of legalistic kiss and tell, but Patty Hearst means business. Challenging the bank robbery sentence that she is now serving, Hearst's new Attorney, George C. Martinez, charged that Attorney F. Lee Bailey's "ineffective counsel" reduced her 1976 trial to "a mockery, a farce and a sham." In a nine-page affidavit filed in the San Francisco U.S. District Court,
Hearst declared that Bailey's own interests interfered with his work in court. She also "noticed during my trial that it was necessary for him [Bailey] to ingest what I consider 'hangover' medicine," that his "hands were shaking, that he seemed to be suffering from the effects of insomnia, that his judgment seemed impaired."
On the Record
Penelope Russianoff, New York therapist, on the negative reactions she got from her peers after she played a therapist in the film An Unmarried Woman: "So much has happened that I went back to my own analyst after twelve years."
Rainer Werner Fassbinder, on the goals of young European directors like himself: "We want to find a form that doesn't empty audiences' heads and make them stupid."