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Show WALTER SCOTT’S PERSONALITY PARADE > Opinion? Truth? Write Walter Scott, Box 5001, 7a Central Station, New York, N.Y. 10163-5001. Full name will be used unless otherwise requested. Volume of mail makes personal replies impossible. ® Want the facts? How many movies became blockbusters this = past summer, breaking the $100 million box- g2 Was money the sole reason Colin Powell decided to retire as chairman ofthe Joint Chiefs? Orwere there “extenuating circumstances” we haven't heard about, such as behind-the-scenes dissension with the President?—-N. Seymour, Houston, Tex. office barrier?—Dennis Sloan, New York, N.Y. Moneyplayed a big part. On Sept. 30, General Powell completed a pair of two-year termsas chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, which pays an rassic Park,” with $317 million (second only to “E.T.,” also directed by Spielberg); “The Firm,” $150 mil- annual salary of $108,200. At 56, he felt the time had come to provide his family with more financial security. Powell signed a book deal worth an estimated $6.5 million and lined up speaking engagements at $60,000 an appearance. As you suggest, however, Trupp/Globe that’s not the entire story. Although Powell got along surprisingly well with President Clinton on a personal level, msiders say he didn’t want to stick around and preside over the Administration’s sharp reduction of the U.S. military establishment. 3 As of Sept. 7, the end of Hollywood’s “summer season,” four films had passed the $100 million mark in domestic grosses: Steven Spielberg’s “Julion; “The Fugitive,” $134 million; and “Sleeplessin Seattle,” $113 million.“In the Line ofFire” had earned $98 million andlater broke your “blockbuster barrier.” Notably absent, of course, was the Amold Schwarzeneggerfilm “Last Action Hero,” which reportedly cost $80 million to make and was heavily hyped as a summer smash but took in only $49.6 million. Q From time to time, you hear about David Cassidy, who was so popular back in the 1970s on TV’s “The Partridge Family.” But then he disappears again. Can you tell me what he’s up to nowadays ?—Martha Hall, North, Va. The woman in question is Barbara Feltus, a 26-year-old model and actress who is the product of a German mother and African-American father. When not onstage in New York, David lives with his third wife, songwriter Sue Shifrin, and their 2-yearold son, Beau, in Los Angeles, where he works on his autobiographyin his spare time.“I want to make peo- ‘ Mariah Carey and Tommy Mottola wed in dune: Sony hopes the newlyweds make beautiful music together Is it true that singer Mariah Carey is planning her first nationwide tour? When willit take place? And whatexplains her decision to venture out on the road?—Albert Davis, Los Angeles, Calif. ple aware of what I am and what I’m doing today,” he says. “I’ve just about doneit. I’m almost home.” = ;: “ Fred Johesea, Marcel Schiess, Theresa B. Sullivan PUBLISHER EMERITUS, Warren |. Reynolds Addresseditarial contribattionste: Articles, Parade, 750Third Ave., New York, RLY. 10017. ‘Mineagh reasonable care vill be taken, Parade 1s act responsible forunsolicried materai I read recently where Princess Di bought a multimillion-dollarfarmhouse in France. Even if she is separated from the Prince of Wales, isn’t France a strange place for her to buy a country getaway? How much time does she intend to spend there with her sons, Harry and William?—Peter Flanagan, reported that the Princess of Wales, 32, had bought a secluded farmstead near the bucolic Frenchvillage of St.-Remy-de-Provence, a favorite hangout of Princess a television special, scheduled to air on Thanksgiving night on NBC. Since her marriage on June 5 to Sony Music honcho Tommy Mottola—who’s 20 years older than his new bride—Mariah has besun to demonstrate a new self-confidence. “I feel I’ve gotten a lot more PRESIDENT, Frank Wichulty EU VILE PREDVEN!, Maton Lieberman VICE PRESIDENTS, Eien Flahive, john Garvey, in tennis or any other language. A Several French publications and “The New York Times” indulged in ation when they promote her fourth album, “Music Box,” released at the end of August. The shapely singer also has taped THE SUNDAY NEWSPAPER MAGAZINE She and “Boom Boom” Becker, 25, celebrated their en- gagementlast March byposingin the buff for a weekiy German magazine—a move that provoked antiblack hate mail in that country. Says Becker, who hasn’t won a Grand Slam tennis tournament in two years: “Babs was the first person who said to me, ‘I wantto see you win again.’” That sounds like love— Boston, Mass. A Mariah Carey, 23, will be going on tour in the US.later this month or early Novemberto help comfortable being myself,” she explains,“and I’m letting that come out in my music.” Having a husband who runs your recording company can’t hurt. Boris Becker kept looking into the stands and waving it since his days as TV’s top teenage heartthrob. His career wentsouth after “The Partridge Family,” starring his stepmother, Shirley Jones, went off the air in 1974; his father, Jack Cassidy, died in a fire musical “Blood Brothers” with his half-brother, Shaun. . While watching the televised matches of the Wimbledon tennis championship, I noticed that to a very attractive black woman. Who is she?—Larry Marshall, Centreville, Va. foot-8 singer and actoris starring in the hit Broadway o. SyaeSees Babs and Boom Boom: A provocative pose piqued David Cassidy, 43, hasn’t had an easy time of in 1976; and David’s repeated bids at a comeback failed for nearly two decades. Today. however. the 5- YP = Caroline of Monaco. The reports have been knocked + Tone M-1--- -—-1---~—-— ~- “ab.~~ down by a Buckingham Palace SpOsncsiiidili aS 4050 lutely untrue.” It seems that Di intends to stick around David Cassidy with wife, Sue: Will he disappear again? her native land—where she continues to outshine her estranged husband, Prince Charles, 44—and make life miserable for the heir to the British throne. ® CHAIRMAN and PUBLISHER, Cario Vitteriai EDITOR, Walter Anderson MADIAGING EDITOR, Larry Smith DIRECTOR OF DESIGN, Ira Yofle EXECUTIVE EDITOR, David Currier EDITOR AT LARGE, Licyd Shearer SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT, Eddie Adams SENIOR COPY EDITOR, Martin Timins SENIOR EDITORS, Sara Brzowshy, Fran Carpentier, Herbert Kupferberg, Gael McCarthy, Bonnie St. Clair ART DIRECTOR, Jean Fujisaki PHOTO EDITOR, Miriam Lorentzen CONTRIBUTING EDITORS, Diane Ackerman, Cleveland Amory, Lisa Birabach, James Brady, lane Cisbattari, Haskell Cohen, Bob Colacello, Ovid Demaris, Bernard Gavzer, David Halberstam, Larry L. 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