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Infer HP HPITlilPrl ill UOIIMIMjAb rfn 11 by Lloyd Shearer LONDON. iee Remick, who recently starred in the seven-part TV drama about Winston Churchill's American I mother, "Jennie: Lady Randolph i as 'The everyone connected with it will be overjoyed. As for me, I'm just glad to be working." lee Remick, born in Boston and reared in New York, journeyed to London seven years ago because she fell in love with Kip Gowans, an English assistant director she was working with in Spain in 1968 on a film, "Hard Contract." 'That picture didn't work," she explains. "Kip and I were the best things to come out of it." In 1968, however, they were both married Lee since 1957 to TV director Bill Colleran, with whom she shares two children, Kate, 16, and Matthew, 14; and Kip to Valerie Gearon, once named as "Britain's Most Promising Actress," with whom he shares two daughters, Nicola, 8, and Justine, 7. Lee wiggled out of her marriage without fuss.

An unpublicized divorce from Colleran in Juarez, Mexico, in 1968 left her free. Messy for Kip With Kip Cowans it was more of a sticky affair. His wife, who had risen to fame in such films as "Anne of the Thousand Days" and "Nine Hours to Rama," filed for divorce in London. She charged her husband with adultery and headlined Lee Remick as 'The Other Woman." Valerie Gowans was granted the divorce and custody of the children. Kip and Lee were married in December, 1970.

They live now in a large remodeled four-bedroom house in St. John's Wood Churchill," has just completed a film here opposite Gregory Peck. It is called "The Omen," and in the genre of "The Exorcist" which has grossed $132 million to date, it is one of the most frightening, chilling, hair-raising, shocking motion pictures ever produced. Apparently, "shockers," if made at a reasonable cost, prove good box office, and if that's the case, "The Omen" bears all the ingredients for success. Gregory Peck plays the handsome, wealthy U.S.

Ambassador to Great Britain. Lee Remick plays his beautiful wife. She is duped into believing that she gave birth to a son, Damien. Damien, it turns out, is the anti-Christ who, according to biblical prophecy, will lead the world to Armageddon, the scene of a great battle between the forces of evil and good. "The Omen" slots this prophecy from the Book of Revelations into 1976.

Most of the principals in the cast are killed except Damien, the child. So much for "The Omen," which is scheduled for a release later this year. Twentieth Century-Fox, the producing studio, plans to keep its plot details top secret. Lee Remick, the film's leading lady, a stunning, blue-eyed blonde of 40, says forthrightly: "If it does half as well 4 in I A 1 i it 4 i 1 I i r'-7 vv i 2 7 tee Kemick played a baton twirler in the 1957 film "A Face in the Crowd," and her performance as a teen-aged sexpot helped catapult her to stardom. "Recently she scored big in "Jennie," a TV drama series about Churchill's mother.

With co-star Gregory Peck and young Harvey Stephens in "The Omen," a new film in the chilling genre of "The Exorcist," whose box-office success it hopes to duplicate..