The game is tennis and the score is, well, love-love. That about sums up the latest Anthony Harvey directed film epic, Players, starring Ali MacGraw, 39, and Dino Martin, 26, a tennis professional as well as an actor, not to mention being Dean Martin's son. She plays an ambitious older woman who meets an aspiring young tennis pro in Mexico and coaxes him to the center court at Wimbledon (the film unit rented the site for around $35,000). Adding piquancy to the situation is the fact that Ali's ex, Robert Evans, is the producer. How does Ali handle the passage to older womanhood? With bravura. Says she: "I think it's about time women can say they're over 30--or 40, for that matter --and not feel ashamed or self-conscious to admit it."

You don't have to be Jewish to love Chaim Potok. The author of The Promise and The Chosen has won literary converts of many faiths with novels about the inner and outer conflicts of the Hasidic life. For his forthcoming history of the Jews, Wanderings (Knopf; $17.95), the famed novelist visited concentration camps and trekked across the Egyptian sands to Mount Sinai. When he is not traveling or writing, Potok often indulges in an early love for painting; numerous examples of his work adorn his home. In fact, he once wanted to be an artist, but his parents persuaded him to scrap the idea.

Amiable, scholarly Hanna Gray, 47, looks more like an extension student than the first female president of the University of Chicago. As she settled into office last week, Gray was reminded that back in 1974, while serving as provost of Yale, she had called herself "not the presidential type." Something obviously changed her mind. Said she: "I think it was, actually, being asked."

The 16 wheezing touch-football stalwarts assembled in Manhattan's Central Park were not exactly current championship contenders. Present were members of the Baltimore Colts and the New York Giants who played in the N.F.L.'s electrifying, first-ever overtime final in 1958 (the Colts won, 23-17). On hand were such Baltimore ex-greats as Johnny Unitas, 45, Raymond Berry, 45, and Gino Marchetti, 51. On the Giants side were Charley Conerly, 56, Frank Gifford, 47, and Kyle Rote, 50. Primed on beer and banter, the Baltimoreans puffed and passed to a 28-14 victory, overcoming such verbal assaults as that made by Referee Sonny Jurgensen on Marchetti: "Wait a minute, Gino. Your stomach's offside!" Then all retired to a picnic. Kyle Rote summed up the sweaty reunion thus: "Listen, we all survived."

"Dracula is the definitive male chauvinist pig. He wants to possess," says George Hamilton, who plays the sanguineous count in the movie Love at First Bite. In this comic version of Bram Stoker's 1897 play, Dracula turns up in Manhattan, where he gets mugged on the street, assaulted by an admiring female on the subway and caught in a brownout. Enough, one might say, to make a count go batty.

On the Record

Louis Jourdan, French actor: "I don't want to be In. I feel that if one is In, one gets Out very quickly."

Joan Baez, songstress and protester, after meeting Nobel Laureate Andrei Sakharov in Moscow: "He is paying a much higher price for his dissenting views than I ever had to pay for mine."

Prince Charles, when the Vatican refused a church wedding to Anglican Prince Michael of Kent and his Catholic bride, Baroness Marie-Christine von Reibnitz: "It seems to be worse than folly that Christians are still arguing about doctrinal matters which can only bring needless distress to a number of people."

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