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...attorneys in the film are the least appealing characters since the Wicked Witch of the West, but that the courtroom scenes are legally out of date. Meryl Streep, playing a restless housewife trying to find fulfillment, has walked out on her marriage to Dustin Hoffman, a hustling young Manhattan adman, leaving him with their young son; 18 months later she wins custody of the child despite the husband's devotion to the boy during her long absence. In the real world, psychiatrists or psychologists would have testified, the judge would have at least interviewed the child and probably would...
...snap opinions at every turn. The process begins with the opening scenes. When Joanna tells Ted she is walking out, the film is, for a while, completely on her side. Joanna is sensitive, beautiful and demonstrably deprived of her own identity. Ted is a cagey, unfeeling Madison Avenue adman who cares only about the big account he has just landed. Ted is so self-absorbed that he cannot believe that Joanna is really miserable enough to leave him. As she waits for the elevator in the hallway of the Kramers' East Side highrise, Ted talks only about himself. Finally...
...page public version of Curran's report (a fuller version, with transcripts of testimony before the grand jury in Atlanta, remains sealed) demonstrates beyond serious challenge that no family or loan funds were siphoned into Carter's 1976 presidential campaign. More narrowly, it finds that Presidential Adman Gerald Rafshoon did not borrow from any bank in 1976 to keep Carter's media campaign alive, as some press reports had alleged. But less persuasive is Curran's conclusion that no banking or conspiracy laws were violated by the eccentric loan arrangements between Carter's warehouse...
...Chicago Adman David Lewis knows the answer, and he is telling everyone who will listen: Rula Lenska is the 31-year-old daughter of a Polish émigré count and lives in London. She was featured as a rock singer in the British TV series Rock Follies and as a character in a never released film, Queen Kong. What fascinated Lewis, who had nothing to do with the hair spray commercials, was this obscure actress's hopeful pretense of being a famous star. As a lark, he founded the Rula Lenska Fan Club-and soon found that some...
...features that made her Britain's trendy fashion model a decade ago: her boyish charm? Twiggy was a kind of '20s bopper in The Boy Friend eight years ago. Now she is a genuine flapper in There Goes the Bride. Co-Star Tommy Smothers plays an addled adman who cracks his head on a door and hallucinates enough to dawdle with the Twiggy of the '20s, whose picture he was about to use in an advertising campaign. After another crack on the noggin, Smothers perambulates into the '40s. He becomes Fred Astaireical, while unflappable Twiggy turns...