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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Unfortunately, the fun comes to a screeching halt when Gideon re-enacts Fosse's heart attack. Though it is daring for a film maker to dramatize his own brush with death, Fosse does not so much confront his own mortality as trivialize it. His usual grab bag of show-biz metaphors is not equal to the dramatic tasks at hand. Indeed, some of Fosse's conceits are embarrassing. An angel of death (Jessica Lange) trots in and out to recite banal Freudian explanations of Gideon's workaholism and promiscuous sexuality. Ben Vereen and dancers in cardiovascular body...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Fan Dance | 12/31/1979 | See Source »

...WINTER'S TALE, one of Shakespeare's last works, is a grab bag of genres. Three acts are tragedy, the fourth is primarily romance with comic undertones and the fifth is sheer fantasy--the statue of King Leontes'supposedly dead wife comes to life on stage. In other words, this is not an easy play to direct...

Author: By Esme C. Murphy, | Title: The Sad Tale's Best | 12/10/1979 | See Source »

...note addressed to Bok was found in a bag near the can of fluid, a spokesman for the Cambridge Fire Department said yesterday...

Author: By Robert O. Boorstin, | Title: Police Investigate 17 Quincy St. Fire | 12/6/1979 | See Source »

...Grab Bag...

Author: By Compiled BY Sue faludi, | Title: Season's Readings | 12/5/1979 | See Source »

Mark Goodheart '81, president-elect of the Independent, wants a new house for his weekly, but he added, "I don't think it will fit in Santa's bag." But the "sports-writer"-turned-"executive" said he would settle for a fireplace with a flue that works...

Author: By Sue Brown, | Title: The Professor Who Has Everything | 12/5/1979 | See Source »

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