Monday, May. 01, 1978

Annie Hall fans, be brave. After all, as the final fadeout made clear, Woody Allen and Diane Keaton were not meant for each other. Now Keaton has a new admirer, Hollywood heartthrob, Warren Beatty. When the pair went restaurant hopping in Beverly Hills, Supersnapper Ron Galella was on their trail in a flash. "This is a paparazzo attack," said Galella. "I'm not going to make it easy," retorted Beatty, and ordered Keaton to lower her head. Keaton, who had stayed in Los Angeles after winning her Oscar, then retreated to a recording studio to make her first album. The sound? Well, gee, ah, um, golly, gosh. Keaton isn't ready to talk about that yet.

A glass of wine, a siesta--and a rare day off from the easel. Joan Miro decided to take it easy on his 85th birthday. "The older I get, the more I do," he said. Laboring seven hours a day in his hilltop studio on the Spanish island of Majorca, he finishes one or two works a week and has also completed a tapestry for the National Gallery of Art in Washington. An especially exciting prospect is an upcoming retrospective exhibition in Madrid, to be opened by King Juan Carlos. It will mean that after 40 years of Franco, Miro will be officially recognized in Spain.

It was down-home night at the White House, and the President hammed it up as emcee. "This is not my regular line of work," he drawled, and added with a grin: "Some people might think I do this better." On hand for both a concert and an impromptu jam session were country performers who had twanged for Carter on the campaign trail, including Tennessee's Charlie Daniels. "When I was broke and didn't have any money for my campaign," recalled Jimmy, "Charlie Daniels gave a benefit performance for me. I might not be President today without his help." Nor without that of Loretta Lynn, who last week launched into a First Family favorite, How Great Thou Art, after announcing: "Rosy, this is for you and Jimmy." Carter told the crowd he often "turns to country music to remind me of my home, my roots. It's a stabilizing force in my life."

The real-life Rocky who made it can't seem to stay out of trouble. Not long after he won the world heavyweight championship from Muhammad Ali, Leon Spinks, 24, was arrested in his home town, St. Louis, for a traffic violation and driving without a license. Last week he had another round with St. Louis cops. Spotted driving into a restaurant parking lot at 4 a.m. with the lights out, Spinks was stopped by police. Again, no license could be produced. Worse, police found a small sack containing white powder tucked in Spinks' hat, which he tossed on the roof of his car while he was being questioned. The hero of fisticuffs was then snapped into handcuffs to be investigated for possible drug violations.

"It's not easy to draw a 6-ft. 5-in. man. There never seems to be enough paper," complains Artist LeRoy Neiman about his latest subject, former New York Knicks Basketball Star Bill Bradley. In the background is the green outline of New Jersey, since Bradley, 34, is running in the Democratic primary in hopes of winning the seat now held by four-term Republican Senator Clifford P. Case, 74. For his tip-off into politics, Bradley asked Neiman, who often draws athletes, to do a poster for campaign contributors (a signed version for those giving $500, an unsigned one for $50 donations). Bradley is satisfied with his image. "There's a certain detachment, sadness and humanity about it."

On the Record

Lowell Darling, who hopes to win the California Democratic gubernatorial nomination over Jerry Brown: "To reduce the mounting paranoia resulting from George Orwell's book, we will get rid of 1984. It's a simple matter. Treat it like the 13th floor of a building. Go directly from 1983 to 1985."

Rosalyn Yalow, Nobel prizewinner for medicine: "I think that the goals of women's societies should be to selfdestruct. The most talented women should not be in women's groups but in men's groups. That's where the power is."

Truman Capote, author (In Cold Blood), on why the rich are different: "Their vegetables are better."

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