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4 Mail deafness and Sly Stallone, F.I.S. T. 's Melinda Dillon Insists: "I'm so lucky" 12 People Picks & Pans 81 Bio 32 Up Front Congressman Benjamin Gilman President Carter deploys Texan -the go-between in the Bob Strauss to try to lasso galloping international prisoner swaps-is a inflation-Kidnapped and secret agent for the oppressed confused, Giovanna Amati Is home again In Rome-After the bawl is 88 Star Tracks over Broadway's Tony contenders Rosalynn Carter greets Dolley dance away their agony and Madison et al-Buddy Rogers and ecstasy-Lobbyist Keith Stroup is Rita Hayworth hold open sending U.S. pot laws up In smoke A kiss for Tony, 38 house-The Human Fly meets King Kong-David Bowie's 45 Winners bodyguards-Liz Taylor's new Angelo Asclolla played David to diet: defeat General Motors' Goliath 92 Out of the Pages 46 Arts Six good reads on subjects ranging Paul Jenkins' splashy paintings are from a tennis pro to an ancient the unbilled co-stars of An photographer to a Scotland Yard Unmarried Woman supersleuth are made for In-the 51 To the Top shade vacation escape Horsebreeder Rayford Ely raises 101 Medics miniatures that gallop indoors Dr. Dudley Johnson makes the 55 In His Own Words case for the controversial heart Divorced parent Dr. Lee Salk talks bypass operation about lessening the Impact of 104 Couples marital splits on the children EncounteringMelinda, 74 How Mad Ave packager Stan 65 Sequel Dragoti got the package of the year Fifteen years after Medgar Evers for a wife-model-turned-TV-celeb was killed, his widow has become a Cheryl Tiegs California oil executive 110 People Puzzle 68 Jocks 113 On theMove Skydiver Perry Jordan chutes first After pursuing Liza M., Patty D. and and answers questions later Dorothy H., Desi Arnaz Jr. is on a 7 4 Off the Screen new chase at 25: stardom Despite a breakdown, a 122 lnStyle miscarriage, a divorce, threatened Allan Beck is Hollywood's fish doctor to the stars because he PEOPI.E WEE KLy pobliShed weekly, except two issues makes house calls combtned1noneatyear-iind.$39peryearu Sand Canada only ·&rTime Inc.. 541 N FaJrbanks Court ��Wv111, &2c\1J=� a1sI�:e:��:=:.i��:�.r8"' 126 For aSong Patrick Lenahan,Treasurer; Charles B Bear. Secretary With Britt Ekland in tow, Foghat Second
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46 HIS PAINTINGS CO-STARRED, BUT WELL BEFORE 'UNMARRIED WOMAN' PAUL JENKINS MADE HIS SPLASH
In a key scene of the movie An Un modern marriage, but the 54-year-old marriedWoman, a massive painting, master hardly needed Hollywood to be supposedly by Alan Bates (who plays a come a star. His paintings bring up to Manhattan artist), is lowered from the $20,000 and are already in the perma window of a fifth-floor loft to the side nent collections of Institutions like walk below. In the next sequence the Museum of Modern Art and on the heroine Jill Clayburgh is seen clutching walls of connoisseurs like Abba Eban, the 6½-by-7-foot canvas as a strong James Jones' widow, Gloria, Clare wind spins it and her in circles. Dan Boothe Luce, Arnold Scaasi and Bur gerously, she totters down the traffic gess Meredith. clogged street with her prize. That was Unmarried Woman director Paul Ma rather rough handling for a fragile, zursky (PEOPLE, May 29) Joined the fan not to mention important, work of art club at a party Jenkins gave In his stu worth about $12,000. But Paul Jenkins, dio in earJy 1977. Mazursky was who actually did the painting-a dra particularly Intrigued by the artist's matic abstraction entitled Rain Palace technique of pouring streams of vivid -felt, or says he felt, no qualms. After acrylics onto huge, loose canvases and all, he explains, "My assistant Mario, then manually tilting them to manipu who is as strong as Hercules, was do late the flow of colors, or guiding the ing the lowering, and he was strapped to dribbles with an ivory knife to create his a steam pipe so he wouldn't fall out oozing, swirling shapes. The day after the window." the party Mazursky met Jenkins again If either Bates or Clayburgh had and told him he was planning a film been In jeopardy comparable to Rain set against the background of an art Palace's, the producer would have re ist's life. Jenkins immediately offered cruited a stand-in. But the artist's the free use of his Greenwich VIiiage bravado in exposing his oeuvre Is not studio as a set, his paintings as scenery unlike the creative risk that made it and his services as an instructor for possible. The movie may be as bullish Bates. The only request the white on Jenkins' talent as it is bearish on bearded artist made, albeit hesitantly, was that he be slipped into a crowd scene. It was done. Withan Ivoryk nHe In what looks like a gi CONTINUED ant penholder, Jenkins refines his ab stract. He also collects Bowle knives. ArlsCONTINUED house. After a two-year Navy tour in Playing Jenkins, Bates turns in one World War II, Jenkins continued his ed of the most memorable movie vi ucation at the Art Students League in gnettes about a painter since Kirk New York. In 1953 he made a pilgrimage Douglas sliced off his ear in Lust for to Europe and settled briefly In Paris, Life. For a month before the film went where he still spends three months Into production, Jenkins Instructed the each year. English actor three afternoons a week. In the early 1950s Jenkins began to Jenkin• replaced the stretcherof Rain "I made Alan mix the spectrum of col perfect his style. Chief among the in Plllac•with a substitute30 poundslight• ors to get a sense of fluidity and fluences on him, he says, were dancer er so Claybwghcould heft It In the movie. viscosity," Jenkins recalls. "I let him Martha Graham (for her sense of move choose his colors-he was strongly ment), actor Jean Louis Barrault (for his drawn to vibrant orange-and intensity), plus painters Jean Dubuffet, made him do throws of acrylic paint and Mark Rothko and, of course, the water on the canvas. As we went along, master dribbler, Jackson Pollock. Ove_r what grew stronger was Bates' the years Paul has weathered two di concept of painting itself." Says Bates: vorces and fathered a daughter (now a "We had a lot of fun mucking about. Manhattan layout designer) without so You lose yourself in the technique. The much alimony that he couldn't kind of thing Jenkins produces looks develop a somewhat sybaritic life so slmple, but it comes from a very style. He owns a handsome Manhattan good mind and a very emotional soul. brownstone and maintains a Paris ate The man's a genius, of course." lier and two Greenwich Village That natural gift was not immediately studios in addition to the one that was apparent. Paul was thrown out of his the movie centerpiece. He chases Old first art class, at the age of 11, for eat Grand-Dad bourbon with Coca-Cola, ing a pear that was part of a still life. but has the most exquisite, demanding Raised In Kansas City, Mo., the only tastes in French restaurants. How does child of a real estate man and a news he keep in condition for his strenuous paper woman, he left home at 17 when art? Responds Jenkins, with a droll de With Jenkins' Wav- withoutWind, which WU seen Inthe flbn, .. a backdrop, the he won a fellowship to study acting livery perhaps learned observing artl.tand collector friendJo..,. duPont and set design at the Cleveland Play- Bates: "I burn." NANNIE COLLINS � a happy how In her pad.