By Guy D. Garcia

Call them the boys of Indian summer. Roy Scheider, 47, and Robert Redford, 46, have both donned pinstripes and taken the field in two new movies about the All-American pastime. In Tiger Town, the first made-for-TV feature for the new Disney cable channel, Scheider plays Billy Young, a fading 39-year-old baseball legend who is spurred on to win a pennant by the faith of an eleven-year-old fan, played by Justin Henry, 12 (Kramer vs. Kramer). Scheider, who broke his nose during an early "career" as a boxer, says that he has always wanted to portray a baseball player but never before had the chance. "As a kid, I played sand-lot softball," he recalls. "Now here I am acting out a fantasy I've had since I was dreaming of ways to get out of New Jersey." Redford, meanwhile, was returning to the screen for the first time since 1980, when he appeared in Brubaker and directed Ordinary People. This month he is on location at War Memorial Stadium in Buffalo filming The Natural, based on Bernard Malamud's 1952 novel about a 34-year-old baseball player who finally makes it to the big leagues during the 1930s. Like Scheider, maybe like every American male, Redford is glad to have a chance to explore an unlived fantasy. He had planned to be a ballplayer at the University of Colorado, but, Redford recalls, "I went there on a half scholarship and proceeded to get sidetracked."

It was a wedding with, well, star appeal. After a five-year romance, Carrie Fisher, 26, who rocketed to fame as Princess Leia in the Star Wars trilogy, and Paul Simon, 41, still crazy about her after all these years, were married in a Jewish ceremony at his West Side Manhattan apartment. The cast of guests appropriate to such a show-biz union included the bride's long-divorced parents, Eddie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds, Star Wars Creator George Lucas, Comedian Robin Williams, Simon's once and present singing partner, Art Garfunkel, and Billy Joel, who presented the couple with a jukebox filled with records from the 1950s. More traditionally, Papa Fisher gave his daughter six ruby, garnet, jade and diamond rings and a vintage Cartier watch. To his new son-in-law he gave his "most prized possession," a framed photograph of Fisher holding Carrie and her brother Todd when they were babies. After the formalities, though, the customary honeymoon was replaced by a "working honeymoon" as the couple flew off to Houston, where Simon and Garfunkel were to appear as part of a nationwide reunion tour.

His shadowy persona and penchant for secrecy have made pictures of him a rare commodity. But the rare commodities in which the Belgian-born financier is more interested--oil, gold and aluminum, among others--have made the Switzerland-based firm he founded in 1974 one of the most successful in the world, with an annual trading volume of $10 billion. Recently, though, Business Wizard Marc Rich, 49, has become the center of an international financial wrangle that has the courts and governments of two countries pulling at his various corporate arms. Two years ago, the U.S. Government began investigating a potentially "massive tax-fraud scheme" involving an oil deal between Marc Rich & Co. AG and its New York City-based subsidiary. A federal court subpoena for tens of thousands of the firm's documents had produced only talk until two weeks ago, when two steamer trunks full of company papers were seized by federal agents as they were about to be loaded on a jetliner bound for Switzerland. At about the same time, another batch of documents was confiscated by Swiss authorities at the company's headquarters in Zug, lest the country's strict corporate secrecy laws be violated. Out of patience, U.S. Federal Judge Leonard Sand has threatened to shut down the company's U.S. operations until the papers are delivered, and will decide next month whether to order the seizure of $55 million worth of Rich's assets that the company put up to guarantee compliance with the subpoena. Meanwhile Rich, as elusive as ever, has returned to Switzerland.

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