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...Amount won by actor Ben Affleck, for 1st place in last week's California State Poker Championship...
...Squad Actor Tony Randall, who died last month [MILESTONES, May 31], had a long stage and film career, but his defining role, as we noted, was portraying the fastidiously neat Felix Unger in the 1970s TV sitcom The Odd Couple. Shortly after the show made its debut, TIME gave it an enthusiastic review...
...neurasthenic homemaker into a Mr. Belvedere, a kind of prissy know-it-all. 'I must remain a kind of male Jewish mother, manipulating others as hysterical people do,' says Randall. Fans should not be misled by ... his nutball performances on TV talk shows. Tony Randall is a serious actor whose dream is to wind up in a good repertory company...
...buzz but that it's a bad film. Several bad films, actually. First it's a comedy of desperation, with lots of sight gags (a machine that spits quarters in Viktor's face, too many people slipping on a wet floor) in the style of French comic actor-director Jacques Tati. Then it's a love story, as Viktor romances a flight attendant (Catherine Zeta-Jones). Finally the uplifting and heart tugging kick in. The Terminal is Spielberg's shortest feature since the first Jurassic Park, yet it drags, plods, piling one lifeless situation atop another. For all the effort...
Reagan tipped Jack Warner's prophecy on its end, persuading most Americans that they were being governed by their best friend. So it is Jimmy Stewart who was the great actor. Was Ronald Reagan a great President? Well, he brilliantly played one on TV. And where's the best of him? In the easy authority he projected--the image of an American hero he rarely got to play in the movies...