"It will be a love-hate story about a cowboy and a naive, well-brought-up Eastern girl who had a passion for each other," says Brooke Hayward, 39, emphasizing the past tense of the verb. The story she describes will be told in her next book, a sequel to Haywire, the best-selling memoir of her childhood. This time the focus will be on Brooke's stormy, eight-year marriage to Actor-Director Dennis Hopper, which ended in 1969. As for Hopper's creative activities of late, he was sitting for a portrait by a longtime friend, Artist Andy Warhol, and working on a screenplay of a William Burroughs novel, Junkie. His collaborator on the screenplay is Satirist Terry Southern, who is also collaborating with Hopper on his autobiography. His life with Brooke, says Hopper, 41, will be no more than a "peripheral part" of the work.

The S on Barbra Streisand's T shirt does not stand for self-effacing. It advertises her latest record album, Superman. In one of the songs, Don't Believe What You Read, La Streisand puts journalists in their place with a flex of her mighty vocal cords. It seems that a Los Angeles columnist got it wrong in claiming that Barbra allows her pet birds to fly freely indoors at home, dropping "little messages" all over the place. Barbra was very peeved at the report, she says in a rambling set of liner notes. Accordingly, she set to work with Songwriters Ron Nagle and Scot Matthews on a number that "would accommodate my feelings about this kind of 'pull-the-wool-over-the-eyes-of-the-public journalism.' " As for the rest of the Superman album, what can Barbra say? Only this: "Clark Kent, eat your heart out!"

Deep in the cellar and rife with disgruntled stars angry at Board Chairman M. Donald Grant's tight contracts, the New York Mets made popular player Joe Torre their manager and immediately got red hot, winning seven of nine games. Can they repeat their Cinderella performance of 1969 and become world champs? Unlikely. But Torre, 36, who practices self-hypnosis "to eliminate the negative in my approach to life," has his team thinking positive and feeling loved. "The key to the game is being relaxed," he says. Coach Willie Mays has a simple explanation for Torre's instant success: "He treats his players like men, not schoolboys."

There were British, American, French, Swedish and Israeli warplanes, a Soviet SST and even a new Polish crop duster, a jet that can fly only 100 m.p.h. But the star of Paris' biennial Air Show was Anne Morrow Lindbergh, 70, whose husband Charles touched down at Le Bourget airport 50 years ago at the end of his epic transatlantic flight. With her son Scott, she made an appearance for the dedication of a memorial to Lindy. Displaying a delicate sense of the appropriate, Transportation Secretary Brock Adams, in attendance to open the U.S. pavilion at the show, gallantly passed his ceremonial scissors to Mrs. Lindbergh. French President Valery Giscard d'Estaing also paid his respects. Mrs. Lindbergh won over everyone with a graceful tribute to pioneering French aviators, including Charles Nungesser and Franc,ois Coli, who disappeared at sea on a transatlantic flight in 1927. Said she: "It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeeded."

Jane Fonda is at rope's end in her latest movie, Comes a Horseman Wild and Free, now filming in Colorado. She plays a small rancher who pools her resources with neighboring Landowner James Caan to fight off greedy Cattle Baron Jason Robards and a passel of oil companies lusting after their range land. Caan had little trouble with his cowpuncher part; riding rodeo happens to be a hobby of his. Fonda knew how to ride horseback, but tossing a lasso properly took practice--about 20 hours' worth. After one unsuccessful roping attempt, the not-so-delicate Fonda displayed a natural ability at freestyle cursing. Said an admiring Caan: "Now you're talking like a real cowboy!"

"It is a delight to play something very far away from one's self," says Roddy McDowall--and by that standard he must be well nigh delirious with pleasure. The actor, 48, takes the part of an 80-year-old gypsy matriarch in Rabbit Test, a loopy, feminist-tinged film that is co-authored and directed by Stand-Up Comic Joan Rivers. It is the story of a bashful night-school English teacher (Billy Crystal) who falls in love with a gypsy girl. Then the hero discovers, courtesy of McDowall's tea-bag reading, that he is pregnant. Whatever else can be said about Roddy as a crone, it is an evolutionary step upward from his most notable role: that of a superintelligent chimp in the sci-fi Planet of the Apes epics.

Whichever of the gods was assigned to fairway patrol had a special smile saved up for Gerald R. Ford last week. Playing in the pro-am event at the Danny Thomas Memphis Classic, the former President smacked a five-iron in the general direction of the par-three, 167-yd. fifth hole. As his Secret Service bodyguards goggled in amazement, Ford's deftly hit ball landed a couple of hops away from the cup and then rolled right in. It was his first hole in one. Alas, Ford's team did not manage to win the event; they finished fifth in a field of 52.

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