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...Allan Arbus is overly dramatic and gives the weakest performance in the production as the writer-director. He's supposed to be a starry-eyed idealist but looks more like a high-strung neurotic, and he fails to convey the seriousness of his own dramatic message...
...time with Laurence Olivier, 67, Hepburn shucked her heavy Edwardian costume for her between-takes exercise and accepted a welcome cuppa char. Katie plays a retired actress being sued for breach of promise by a young man and defended in court by her old beau, Barrister Olivier. Says Producer Allan Davis: "The actress, lawyer and young man spend the picture jockeying for position, just like in the shooting." As for Hepburn, she seems most concerned about keeping...
During the '60s, journalists searching for a Western equivalent of Yukio Mishima used to mention Ernest Hemingway. It was a prophetic comparison, but they might as usefully have thought of Edgar Allan Poe reincarnated in Norman Mailer-a garish, night-blooming talent driven by an energetic sense of publicity. Mishima, the literary genius of Japan's postwar generation, often mentioned for the Nobel Prize, delighted in shock and contradiction. He possessed luminous and fertile abilities: his complete works in Japanese are now being collected in 36 volumes. He was also a master of what Russians call posh-lust...
...Princeton duo of Nina Nielsen and Marilee Allan moved into an insurmountable lead after the first day, Thursday, and finished with 75 points. UCal at San Diego chalked up 86 under the low-score-wins system, and Radcliffe followed with 99 points in the 10-team field...
...McCarthy and Allan Taylor. I've never heard folk-singers Bob McCarthy and Allan Taylor, which reminds me that I've rarely heard anything so scandalous as the story of the Teamsters' betrayal of the United Farmworkers in California. You can help by boycotting non-union grapes, lettuce, and Gallo wine. For more info on the UFW, call 536-9465 or 288-9347. Through Sunday, June 2 at Passim. Call 492-7679 for information on the show...