Few can boast a more stunning sense of style. But New Wave Disco Queen Grace Jones, 32, has been knocking men out in a more direct fashion on location in France for the new James Bond film, A View to a Kill. The script casts Jones as May Day, who tries to outfox Her Majesty's secret agent. One scene called for Jones to hoist a 6-ft., 180-lb. KGB agent over her head to put him in his place. Jones says she could have lifted Actor Bogdan Kominowski on her own, but the studio insisted that supporting wires be attached to him as a safety measure. Declared Jones: "My mother always warned me about picking up men." Obviously, Mom didn't know Grace could manage it without letting them fall for her.
After the birth was announced, British bookmakers counted the odds at 6 to 4 in favor of a George, with Henry considered a 50-to-1 long shot. But Henry it was. Henry Charles Albert David, to be regal about it; Prince Harry, as he has already been dubbed by Britons one and all. The third in line to the throne wasted no time in the hospital. A glowing Prince Charles and Diana took him home just a day after his arrival. Not to worry about an o'erhasty departure though. Just as it does for every other British newborn, the National Health Service will send a "health visitor" round to little Harry's new home this week to be sure Kensington Palace is a suitable environment for rearing a child.
Theirs is a world of tax shelters and trust funds, limousines and mansions, but one thing that the 400 richest people in America cannot afford to do is rest on their assets. In 1984, according to Forbes magazine, one needs to be worth at least $150 million—a sesquicenti-millionaire—to make the list of the country's wealthiest individuals. Among those dropped from this year's roster was Bob Hope, 81, who was credited in 1983 with a fortune of $200 million. Hope dared the magazine to prove he was worth more than $50 million. Forbes took up the challenge this year and after an extensive investigation into Hope's real estate holdings in California came up with a revised figure of a measly $115 million. Still, nothing to laugh at.
Considering the debacle over nude photographs that led to the resignation of last year's winner, the judges' choice of Miss Utah as the new Miss America seemed made in promotional heaven. Sharlene Wells, 20, began her reign last week by promising a return to "traditional values." The 120-lb., 5-ft. 8-in. blond daughter of a Mormon missionary does not smoke, drink, take drugs, believe in abortion, condone premarital sex or back the Equal Rights Amendment ("The ERA would make us a neuter society; I prefer to be a woman"). A communications major at Brigham Young University who wants to become a news anchorwoman, Wells bristles at the suggestion that her conservative views helped her win the crown. "It seems that the media are bent on forcing everything I say into their Miss America mold," she complains. "The judges never questioned me about my views on morals, religion and social mores." And it seems unlikely that relieved pageant officials will ever have to.