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...ASTOR Russ Mever's 3 Feature Show...
Dirty Harry--A hack detective thriller directed by the talented Don Siegel from a script laden with authoritarian preaching. Clint Eastwood, perhaps the least talented superstar of all time, is Harry. With The Omega Mess, Charlton Heston in humdrum sci-fi. ASTOR. Harry: 1:15, 4:40. Omega...
...park but to have the city pay part of the cost of production as well. Eventually he got his way, and in 1960 the city gave him $60,000-revenue from subway chewing gum machines. Crisis followed crisis, but in 1971 he persuaded the city to buy the former Astor Library, a beautiful piece of Italian Renaissance Victoriana that had been destined for the wrecker's ball, and lease it to him for $ 1 a year...
...building, an ornate pile of red brick in Manhattan's East Village, was built by Multimillionaire John Jacob Astor to house New York's first public library. It has been designated a federal landmark and, except when the janitor's dog naps on the front steps, its outward aspect is as staid as old money. Inside, however, the atmosphere combines elements of a happening, a commune and a scene from The Time of Your Life. Bicycles wheel through the stately old lobby. Plays are being rehearsed. Youths in jeans scurry around with portfolios. Music echoes from...
This is New York's Public Theater, which in four years has become something of a city landmark itself. In the raffish, energetic image of its founder-producer, Joseph Papp, the Public Theater has converted the interior of the Astor Library into five theaters, a cinématheque, a photographic workshop, scene shop and offices. It offers an impressively wide range of inexpensive (top ticket: $6) and provocative artistic fare: plays from Shakespeare to experimental new works, films, poetry readings, dance programs and concerts...