By E. Graydon Carter

The setting was less formal than at most of their previous meetings, but it still must have seemed like old times for Jimmy Carter, 56, and Anwar Sadat, 62. Winding up a six-day U.S. visit, the Egyptian leader detoured to Plains, Ga., to see his "deep friend." The reunion was all harmony and grits. Out on the old softball field, with Rosalynn and Jehan looking on, Jimmy presented Sadat with a glass sculpture of a laurel wreath. Sadat was at his gracious best, although Carter's detractors will doubtless delight in misconstruing his words. Said he: "Jimmy Carter has left his fingerprints on the history of our age."

Don't cancel those flight reservations--Chevy Chase, 37, has not signed on as a substitute air-traffic controller. But in the film Modern Problems, he plays a harried controller who loses his girlfriend (Patti D'Arbanville). When a nuclear accident leaves him with telekinetic powers, Chevy takes his revenge by turning Patti into a UFSO--Unidentified Flying Sex Object.

It hardly mattered that the Phillies lost to St. Louis, 7-3, on the first day of the second installment of the 1981 baseball season. Pete Rose's eighth-inning single off Cardinal Pitcher Mark Littell was what the 60,561 spectators at Philadelphia's Veterans Stadium had come to see. It was Rose's 3,631st career hit, and it broke Stan Musial's 18-year-old National League record. Seconds after Rose, 40, landed on first, fireworks went off, 3,631 balloons were released and Stan the Man himself was making his way across the infield to offer his congratulations. In the locker room afterward, Pete was handed the telephone. "This is Ronald Reagan," said the voice at the other end. "How ya doin'?" grinned Rose. Said the President: "I've had so much trouble getting this line. I think I had to wait longer than you did to break the record." Replied Pete: "We were going to give you five more minutes and then that was it."

In a peasant dress, with locks tumbling down her back, she was the essence of pouty innocence in Roman Polanski's Tess. Well, take another look, because in Francis Coppola's upcoming musical One from the Heart, set in the Las Vegas world of neon nights, Actress Nastassia Kinski, 20, plays a circus performer with the wily ways of a seductress twice her age. Heart is being billed as "a fantasy about love, jealousy and sex." From the look of things, Nastassia fills the bill.

More bad news for Michelle Triola Marvin, 46. In July, the former live-in mate of Actor Lee Marvin, 57, was fined and placed on probation for shoplifting some bras and a sweater from a Beverly Hills store. Then last week the California Court of Appeal reversed the landmark 1979 Los Angeles Superior Court decision that ordered Marvin to ante up $104,000 in palimony--equivalent to $1,000 a week for two years, the most that Triola, who now describes herself as a public relations agent, had made in her career as a lounge singer. The appeals court upheld the concept of palimony but nixed the settlement, ruling that "Triola sustained no damages by virtue of her living with Marvin." You guessed it: Michelle's attorney, Marvin Mitchelson, plans an appeal.

--By E. Graydon Carter

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