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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...stories in order to take advantage of the locations, or fighting off gunmen sent out by the competition, his picture has a pleasant authenticity. There is also a nicely handled romantic triangle involving O'Neal, Burt Reynolds as a star and Newcomer Jane Hitchcock as a comically nearsighted actress. What goes wrong with the picture is an overreliance on slapstick, the nearly lost silent film technique, as a device to evoke the spirit of the time. Bogdanovich apparently does not quite trust his film's softer side to grab interest, especially in the early going...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The First Picture Shows | 1/3/1977 | See Source »

...bestselling author (Mary Queen of Scots Cromwell: The Lord Protector); after 20 years of marriage, six children; in London. Eraser's suit for divorce was not contested by Lady Antonia, who has been living with Playwright Harold Pinter for more than a year. Pinter's wife. Actress Vivien Merchant, named her Ladyship corespondent in a suit in 1975, but has since decided not to press for a divorce...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Dec. 27, 1976 | 12/27/1976 | See Source »

...preening charm and Irish good looks were also prominent in plays, films, television and supper clubs. Cassidy often appeared with Shirley Jones, to whom he was married for 18 years before their divorce last year. His son. Singer David Cassidy, was born during his earlier marriage to Actress Evelyn Ward...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Dec. 27, 1976 | 12/27/1976 | See Source »

Back in Rome after moviemaking in Montreal, Actress Sophia Loren, 42, has a new role as a grandma−or at least a step-grandmother to husband Carlo Ponti's first grandchild. Loren's work in Montreal involved family matters of a different kind. In Angela, a modern version of the Greek tragedy Oedipus at Colonus, she plays a restaurant waitress who loses her infant son to Mafia kidnapers. Years later, the long-lost lad, played by Steve Railsback, 30, accidentally meets up with Mom and, presto, some Oedipal complexities develop. Sophia can only hope she will avoid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Dec. 27, 1976 | 12/27/1976 | See Source »

...town of Weatherford in Texas has a population of about 12,000 and boasts that two of its citizens have won national fame: Actress-Singer Mary Martin and Congressman James Claude Wright. For the next two years at least, Wright will probably get top billing over Mary Martin for a change...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Two Who Will Run the House | 12/20/1976 | See Source »

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