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...lose its grip on you after about the first hour, but it is nevertheless an excellent film. Perhaps its problems lie in the fact that there were too many cooks. Gilbert and Fonda took their original idea to the then untried scenarist Nancy Dowd, who has since won critical acclaim for her original screenplay of Slapshot. Over a year later, Dowd came up with a long, ultimately unusable screenplay. Next they approached Waldo Salt, an Oscar winner for Midnight Cowboy, who ended up writing the screenplay. He suggested producer Jerome Hellman. Hellman and director Hal Ashby (Bound For Glory, Shampoo...

Author: By Bob Grady, | Title: 'Nam Goes to the Movies | 4/6/1978 | See Source »

...Curious George" was Rey's second book. She and her husband had not intended to write successive books about the little monkey, but widespread acclaim for George persuaded them to continue his adventures...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Author of 'Curious George' Speaks at Dunster House | 3/7/1978 | See Source »

Burns has received critical acclaim for his understated performance as the cigar-smoking deity in the spoof...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Burns Nixes Artists Series Invitation | 1/10/1978 | See Source »

...found him virtually nowhere on the all-important scale of commercial success. Several of his songs--"Loan Me a Dime," for example, and "Dinah Flo" were FM classics, but FM airplay is a notoriously poor way to pay the rent. It was the old story--a critical acclaim and cult following which did not translate into anything tangible and preferably green. His gradual evolution from rock to a bland middle-of-the-road sound just wasn't making it and he was due for either a radical change or more years in obscurity...

Author: By William S. Barol, | Title: Son of "Silk Degrees" | 12/5/1977 | See Source »

After the wild applause there was sudden silence: a pause of anticipation, and die volk were not disappointed. Within a minute the Prime Minister had gained the first murmurs of acclaim; within five minutes he had brought the crowd to its feet. When he wanted to drive home a point, it was not a jab but a double uppercut as he thrust both fists in the air. And when he wanted the world to listen?as he did last week?John Vorster switched from Afrikaans to deliberate and slightly accented English...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTH AFRICA: The Defiant White Tribe | 11/21/1977 | See Source »

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