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Perhaps it is the Santa Ana, blowing in from the Mojave Desert. Or a kind of Morse code flashed out by the traffic lights along Sunset Boulevard. Or maybe John Galley, head of production at Warner Bros., has the answer. "At best," he says, "this business is a crap shoot." Whatever the reason, each year Hollywood producers put their money on only two or three numbers-two or three kinds of movies. The themes for 1977: war, jocks and women...
...Charlene Franklin Santa Ana, Calif...
...armed forces have been by leftist terrorists over the past six years. Only a week after the U.N. kidnaping, the guerrillas staged one of their most cold-blooded coups to date: the assassination of Federal Police Chief Cesareo Cardozo, 50, an army general. Using a teen-age girl. Ana Maria González, to make friends with Cardozo's daughter, they managed to plant a bomb under the general...
...mother, though, is a subject on which the usually candid Vidal has volunteered little. "She had a gift for not doing the right thing" is about all he has to offer. But Anaïs Nin, who met and befriended Vidal in Paris in 1945, told her Diary that the young man "knows the meaning of his mother abandoning him when he was ten to remarry and have other children." In another entry, she wrote: "He had wanted his mother...
DONANA: SPAIN'S WILDLIFE WILDERNESS by Juan Antonio Fernández. 253 pages. Taplinger. $29.95. Tucked away in a corner of Spain, southwest of Seville, is the Coto de Doñana habitat for rare and endangered species: the imperial and short-toed eagles, great bustard, bee eater, azure-winged magpie and, in migration at least, the great flamingo. Those who want to view this ornithological paradise firsthand should be aware of the customary protocol: visitors must get permits from the director of the local biological station to feast their eyes on its plumed riches. This sumptuous pictorial tour...