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...DANNY THOMAS HOUR (NBC, 9-10 p.m.). Bradford Dillman as the head of a small-time numbers racket talks Richard (Man of La Mancha) Kiley into becoming a bagman for his illegal operation in "Measure...
...series of bizarre episodes, Gog finds himself involved with such hallucinatory historical characters as the Duke of Wellington, Cleopatra, and Alfred the Great, not to mention such odd fictive figures as the Bagman and the Crook. In a novel of this picaresque kind, an orgy is to be expected sooner or later. Gog's orgy comes promptly and seems to be under pre-Christian Druidic auspices, though the Marquis de Sade and Herr von Sacher-Masoch are present in postures appropriate to their eponymous status. Gog meets his spiritual twin, an evil ogre called Magog. He also finds...
...Imprisoned Clemard Charles, his chief bagman and president of one of Haiti's biggest banks...
...from above). Every Oriental language has its own phrase for corruption-and in every tongue the words are unpleasantly familiar. All around the rim of mainland China, many Asian nations are making notable progress, but the greatest obstacle remains the furtive hand in the till, the kickback artist, the bagman, the specialist in "squeeze." Philippines President Ferdinand Marcos, who has more than his share of corruption to bog him down at home, is convinced that "we must change a whole way of life. We must do it or fail to survive...
Woody has now discovered a gold mine: the movie business. Last year he wrote a wacky feature (What's New Pussycat?) that plotzed so many people that it has already grossed more than $10 million. And in Tiger Lily, this baby-faced bagman has brought off the hat trick. He has made a movie without spending money-in fact, he has made a movie without even making a movie. For about $66,000, advanced by Producer Henry Saperstein, Allen bought up a ludicrously lousy Japanese thriller that was made in glorious TohoColor and should have been confiscated as contraBond...