She plays Lee Winters, a former film star and the widowed heiress to a petrochemical empire. He portrays Hub Smith, a gutsy, maverick banker and corporate troubleshooter. Together they embark on a daring financial scheme with, you guessed it, international repercussions. The plot for the film Rollover, due to be released in December, is made even more intriguing by the presence of Co-Stars Jane Fonda (The China Syndrome, Coming Home) and Kris Kristofferson (A Star Is Born; and this week's re-released Heaven's Gate), who do not ordinarily play corporate types. Still, the actress came prepared for her Establishment role, right down to her fingertips. "I had to let my nails grow," says Fonda, 43, "but I'm going to cut them when this is over. I've found that you can't lead a normal life-style with long nails."

Most actors worry about what winds up on the cutting-room floor after a film has been shot. Albert Finney, 44 (Tom Jones, Murder on the Orient Express), got the worst over with first. For his role as Multi-millionaire Daddy Warbucks in the film Annie, directed by veteran John Huston, Finney had his sandy hair shorn, lock, shock and cowlick. Said he afterward: "I've heard that the first thing a woman notices about a man is his hair." Finney, who will get $1 million for five months of shooting, need not worry about such a hairbrained notion for long. Once the film is finished, his hair, like the sun, will come out tomorrow.

"Rudi and I dancing together was not a big deal, but pure tongue-in-cheek fun," says Mikhail Baryshnikov, 33, of his first appearance with Countryman Rudolf Nureyev, 43. Though they are longtime rivals, each responded with a hearty da when Choreographer Paul Taylor suggested that they pair up at the opening night gala for his New York dance company. The result was about as Russian as apple pie. In From Sea to Shining Sea, Taylor's 1965 send-up of American life, Baryshnikov played an office worker and George Washington, while Nureyev portrayed a workman and a Brando-like waterfront tough. During a pas de trois romp with Dancer Gwen Verdon, they hoisted her up onto their shoulders, then discovered that she was facing away from the audience. Said Nureyev: "The great thing about America is that you can laugh at yourself when things go wrong. In Russia you can't."

The title of Bonjour Tristesse, her first novel, written when she was just 18, was inspired by Paul Eluard's poem. She took her last name from a character in Marcel Proust's Remembrance of Things Past. And in the preface to her latest bestseller, Le Chien Couchant, published last November, French Novelist Franc,oise Sagan admitted to pinching the plot from a 16-year-old short story by Writer Jean Hougron and thanked him for his "involuntary cooperation." Though the confession had just the cavalier charm that has long delighted Sagan's readers, Hougron was not amused. He took her into a Paris court on a charge of plagiarism. The judge called Le Chien Cowchant "illicit reproduction" and ordered her to split all royalties with Hougron. The court further ruled that all unsold copies be confiscated, and the printing plates destroyed. Last week Sagan filed an appeal. Meanwhile, Critic Jean Didier Wolfromm added a Gallic twist by noting the striking similarities between Sagan's story and an earlier yarn by Suspense Writer Georges Simenon. Concludes Wolfromm: "If anyone is entitled to sue, it should be Georges."

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