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<text id=91TT1846>
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Aug. 19, 1991: Love Boat I
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TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1991
Aug. 19, 1991 Hostages:Why Now? Who's Next?
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<source>Time Magazine</source>
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PEOPLE, Page 63
Love Boat I
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<p>By Alexander Tresniowski/Reported by Wendy Cole
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<p> In its nine years on TV, The Love Boat offered many
strange couplings of past-their-prime stars: Remember the
episode when Shecky Greene romanced Florence Henderson? But
stranger bedfellows there never were than the show's stately
Captain Merrill Stubing and a former British Prime Minister,
both of whom were in New York City last week for the splashy
inauguration of the Regal Princess, the spanking-new supership
in Princess Cruises' "Love Boat" fleet. Margaret Thatcher was
on hand to christen the vessel, and crossed paths with Gavin
MacLeod, the company's spokesman, in a piano bar aboard the
ship. The two launched into a discussion of The Love Boat,
which, though reruns still air in 93 countries, is apparently
not Thatcher's cup of tea."It was very popular, I gather," she
said, and later MacLeod admitted, "Once I explained it to her,
she knew what we were talking about."
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<p> The next day, as Her Majesty's Band of Royal Marines
played There Is Nothin' Like a Dame, Thatcher strode onto a
floating barge for the ship's christening. "You don't have to
be a millionaire to feel like a millionaire," she said, plugging
the ship's virtues. Thatcher disembarked before the gala Love
Boat reunion, though Henderson (the show's second most frequent
guest star, after Charo) was on hand. Has the former Prime
Minister so quickly gone from steering a ship of state to
shilling for a ship? Has the Iron Lady become the
"How-Much-Will-I-Earn Lady"? Well, not exactly. Thatcher braved
the fracas as a favor to her friend Lord Sterling of Plaistow,
chairman of Princess Cruises' parent company, and received no
fee for her efforts.
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