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Childlike Level. Bailey let West talk on and on, a tactic that angered Assistant U.S. Attorney David Bancroft. Carter agreed with Bancroft, telling Bailey to stick to questions and answers. But in time Carter grew irritated with Bancroft's protests and said: "If you say he [Bailey] doesn't have the right to object I'll tell you to go soak your head." (Albert Johnson, Bailey's assistant, later gave Bancroft a bottle of shampoo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRIALS: Battle over Patty's Mind | 3/8/1976 | See Source »

Movies, of course. Now in Hollywood working on Lipstick, a courtroom drama starring Anne Bancroft, she has been performing by day while taking acting and voice lessons in her off hours. "I can read the script before I go on and memorize my lines after studying them just one or two times," she reports with obvious pleasure. Though she plays a model, she insists that she has not been typecast. "The character I play is to tally different from the way I am," says the flaky Margaux. "A lot more low-keyed. A lot less flamboyant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Feb. 16, 1976 | 2/16/1976 | See Source »

...film) with her daughter. My favorite scene is Hoffman floating at the bottom of his parents' swimming pool in his brand new scuba outfit contemplating the absurdity of life. Or something like that. The ending is straight out of storybook land, but with Simon and Garfunkel singing, Hoffman and Bancroft acting and one of the better comic scripts around. Plastics...

Author: By Paul K. Rowe, | Title: THE SCREEN | 1/15/1976 | See Source »

...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 guy the movie's got Scott must be portrayed as an anti-Nazi sympathetic to the point of finally becoming...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Gasbag | 12/29/1975 | See Source »

...Harvard, as well as the national boycott, will persist until these farm workers receive contracts. The H-R UFW support committee, no longer affiliated with NAM and currently picketing Star Market rather than the Harvard Provision Company, continues to give the UFW the support The Crimson editorial calls for. Bancroft R. Poor...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: UFW | 11/24/1975 | See Source »

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