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...blocks away in a manic revival of the 1930s farce Room Service, a portrait of pre-Broadway opening desperation. Reddin winningly playswhat else?--the playwright, a geeky kid from Oswego who eventually has to "die" for an hour and a half so that his show might live. Director Alan Arkin seems too conscious that Room Service was adapted as a Marx Brothers movie vehicle. Mark Hamill, the fresh-faced Luke Skywalker of the Star Wars series, is mustached and growly as an imitation Groucho; Lonny Price giggles and cavorts as a talking Harpo; Andrew Bloch is less derivative...
...from it. He harbors so much anger, presumably owing to his own mother, or to his own miserable upbringing in Montreal, that his novel gets bogged down by sheer malice. The fictional Joshua's mother is absurd--a vain, floozy stripper--and his coarse father (adequately played by Alan Arkin, in the film's only good performance) lives a cliche. Richler's story of Jewish lust/angst was better served by Philip Roth in Portnoy's Complaint...
Other leading participants in the conference will include William Arkin, director of nuclear weapons research at the Institute of Policy Studies and George Ratchjens, an MIT professor of political science...
...Taylor, would probably be beyond the capabilities of military designers outside the U.S. and the Soviet Union. The smallest nuclear device developed by the U.S. (SADM). Deployed since 1964, it can be carried by one man and is designed to destroy dams, bridges and similar installations. According to William Arkin, a defense specialist with the Institute for Policy Studies, a private Washington-based research organization, the U.S. has about 400 of these devices in Europe, South Korea, Guam and the U.S. Until recently, the military also produced a 400-lb. nuclear device, the medium atomic demolition munition (MADM), capable...
...celebrate its 25th birthday, the Second City comedy troupe has some new trophy cases in the lobby of its Chicago theater. Now they have more space to show off pictures of such former Second Citizens as John Belushi, Joan Rivers, Dan Aykroyd and Bill Murray. Other alumni, including Alan Arkin, Robert Klein and David Steinberg, were back in person recently for an anniversary reunion, which was taped by Home Box Office for airing in April. And in the world beyond, a Second City troupe is established in Toronto, touring companies are on the road, and SCTV is in reruns...