Word: anspach
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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This is not to say that Douglas is an unappealing actor or that Susan Anspach, his long-suffering spouse, does not have some good moments playing a lady who knows better than to love him but cannot help herself. As a director, Steven Hilliard Stern does some nice, gritty road and street work. It is as a writer that he allows too much rigging to show. In both capacities, he tends to veer from the excessively melodramatic to the overly adorable, never finding the steady realistic pace that in movies, and in marathons, makes for a winning - or at least...
...plot also leads him into a very dark passage when the young woman (Susan Anspach) who helped recruit him for the job-and who was his once and, he hoped, future lover-is murdered because she is a witness to a key kidnaping. But the emotion this event releases in Moses gives the film an honest weight that is not burdensome or pretentious. At this midpoint, the production becomes serious without turning sober and without slackening its strong pace...
...most people, Park Place, Marvin Gardens and Baltic Avenue are just spaces on the Monopoly board-unlucky ones, to be sure, if occupied by money-gobbling hotels placed there by an opponent. But to Economist Ralph Anspach, those properties are part of a game that subtly encourages young minds to accept the evils of monopolization. "Some kids grow up not knowing that monopolies are illegal," he complains. In counterattack, Anspach and his 14-year-old son Mark have created Anti-Monopoly, a new, sophisticated board game that recently went on sale in the San Francisco Bay Area...
...first week on the counters, Anti-Monopoly sold more than 2,000 copies at $8.75 each. After 15,000 sets are purchased, Anspach will channel 5% of all profits into a special legal aid fund that he has set up for small companies victimized by conglomerates. If the fund produces the desired effect, executives of large, errant corporations may some day be forced to obey a command on the Anti-Monopoly board: "Go to court. The judge has called an extra session." Still, that is preferable to Monopoly's "Go directly to jail...
Blume in Love. By Paul Mazursky, who did Bob and Carol and Ted and Alice, which was a better movie. This sometimes incisive work is a tale of undying love that sends George Segal from Los Angeles to Venice in search of his divorced wife, beautiful Susan Anspach. It won't take you quite as far. Cheri...