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Alerted to the possibility of sabotage, the Nazis place a Luftwaffe colonel (George C. Scott) aboard as a security man. Being a reasonably alert fellow, he cannot fail to observe that there is a feverish, guilty quality about a rigger named Boerth (William Atherton). The screenplay's attempts to generate a little mystery by introducing red herrings from the passenger manifest are laughable, since such worthies as Anne Bancroft, Gig Young and Burgess Meredith constitute nothing more than the customary ship of fools. It is hard to understand why Scott wastes time on them. As the only good...
Back in Washington, however, his top aides for the Middle East-Joseph Sisco, Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs, and Alfred Atherton, Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs-talked about little else. They spent nearly every waking hour conferring with two teams of Israeli officials, determining just what the U.S. would give in money, arms and political guarantees in exchange for Israeli concessions to Egypt. One team talked about money. Discussing political angles down the hall was another team that included Israeli Ambassador to Washington Simcha Dinitz and Mordechai Gazit, the top civil servant in Prime Minister...
...first scenes are done in a saccharine style that only certain parts of Gatsby could equal (the scene where Redford and Farrow take nearly half a minute to run into each other's arms across a seemingly endless expanse of screen comes to mind). Locusts opens with Tod (William Atherton) driving Faye Greener (Karen Black) through the streets of Beverly Hills, past the well-cultivated lawns of auspicious mansions, as "Isn't it Romantic?" plays on the soundtrack...
...level rage and tilted compassion, his ability to make human even the most grotesque mockery. The novel, a series of interrelated sketches, does not have the strong narrative that lends itself best to film adaptation. So this movie has trouble finding a focus. The protagonist is Tod Hackett (William Atherton), an aspiring artist who works in the production department of a major studio. Hackett also nourishes a private vision of cataclysm, which he wants to get on canvas and call The Burning of Los Angeles. It is good to know this in advance, for although Schlesinger shows Hackett making sketches...
Russell Baker gave the annual Frederic William Atherton lecture last night, saying that he "didn't want to moralize," and choosing to amuse the audience rather than inform...