While Mom and Dad bundled off to Europe on White House business, Amy Carter bundled up for her first ever ski lessons in Crested Butte, Colo. "She's pretty aggressive--and that's important--and brave too," said Instructor Mike Wells after Amy's first day on the slopes. "She tried to kiss a tree once, and she got up laughing." Amy, who is staying with Carter family friends in Colorado, will get a course in skiing fundamentals during her six-day visit, says Wells, and a chance to test her new skills on the resort's beginners' slope, Peanuts.

He was known "by people who have never heard of Jesus Christ," Screen Star Charlie Chaplin once said of himself. Yet when the Little Tramp of silent films was buried in Switzerland last week, following his death on Christmas Day at the age of 88, the final scene was a family affair. Wife Oona, 52, a small circle of friends and servants, and eight of Chaplin's nine children gathered in Corsier-sur-Vevey, the small village where he had lived for the last 25 years and where he was laid to rest in a plot overlooking Lake Geneva. Chaplin was "a progenitor from whom everybody else descends," noted Italian Director Federico Fellini, adding his voice to a worldwide chorus of eulogies. "His was a figure that, even when it first appeared, had something mythical and eternal about it."

The honeymoon will wait until February, when the Palm Beach, Fla. exhibition of his prison paintings has closed. Still, Watergater E. Howard Hunt, 59, found time to pop open some bubbly and toast his new bride. She is Laura Martin, 31, a former Georgia schoolteacher whom he met through friends over a year ago. It has been ten months since Hunt finished his jail term for Watergate burglary, and he says, "I'm very optimistic and look forward to peace and quiet." And prosperity. Hunt's paintings have been moving well (one recently went for $4,000), and he has sold the option to movie rights on his autobiography, Undercover, for a cool $250,000.

Although her film Valentino did a quickstep into oblivion, Actress Michelle Phillips isn't ready for a fadeout. She has just signed up for a starring role in Chicago Girl, a movie in which she will play an actress who impersonates a prostitute. "It's fun to go through a complete metamorphosis from a well-dressed and sophisticated woman to a tacky, slutty one," allows Michelle. Not that the ex-Mama (of the Mamas and the Papas) has been lounging around between films. The former offstage leading lady to ex-Papa John Phillips and Actors Dennis Hopper, Jack Nicholson and Warren Beatty, Phillips has just released her first solo album. Its title, appropriately: Victim of Romance.

The film is titled Foul Play, and that pretty much describes the way Actress Goldie Hawn is treated in the upcoming comedy-thriller. For her first picture in almost three years, Goldie clambers over a fourth-floor fire escape, straddles the rafters in a Los Angeles auditorium, and rides shotgun during a speedy car chase in hilly San Francisco. "It's v-e-r-y scary," says she. In fact, even a romantic love scene with Co-Star Chevy Chase had a few accidentally bad moments. When the pair started cuddling in front of a fireplace, burning embers ignited more than passion. Fumes Chevy: "My bathrobe caught on fire."

On the Record

John C. White, when asked why he was nominated as the new Democratic national chairman: "Somebody told me they needed a lyin', doublecrossin' s.o.b. in there, but I hope that's not the reason."

A. Bartlett Giamatti, new Yale president, who once said that the school was awaiting someone on a white horse: "I have a yellow Volkswagen."

Lawrence Grossman, president of the Public Broadcasting Service, talking about the importance to PBS of the BBC: "What would public television be if the British didn't speak English?"

Andrew Maguire, New Jersey Congressman, on the Senate aspirations of former New York Knicks Star Bill Bradley: "He's a good basketball player, but when you're in Congress, you've got to hit better than 60% from the floor."

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