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MISS AMERICA PAGEANT (NBC, Sept. 16, 10 p.m. EDT). Gary Collins and Phyllis George gush over the annual parade of swimsuits and baton solos...
...everyone carries a general's baton in his knapsack. As an editor, I wasn't fishing for sensational stories. I was always aware of my paper's political responsibilities, so I don't feel uncomfortable changing jobs. Of course it is different being editor of a 500,000-circulation newspaper and being a Prime Minister. At first I felt as if a great rock were put on my shoulders. Someone wrote that during the confirmation vote, I looked like a condemned man waiting for his sentence to be passed. When I looked at myself on TV, I saw a stranger...
...problem. In sex, lies, and videotape, Soderbergh suggests that abstinence makes the heart grow fonder. Ann (Andie MacDowell) is a Baton Rouge, La., housewife too decorous to go mad. Things with her lawyer husband John (Peter Gallagher) are fine, she tells her therapist, "except I'm havin' this feeling that I don't want him to touch me." They haven't had sex for a while. At least Ann hasn't; John is pursuing an affair with her lubricious sister Cynthia (Laura San Giacomo). Curiosity is about the only thing that can be aroused in gentle Ann, and when John...
...their world, romance is bruised but blooming; and the characters are so fully drawn that the moviegoer can become possessive of them, even judgmental, as he would with a friend. Would Sally have faked a fortissimo orgasm in a crowded restaurant? Would footloose Graham come back to Baton Rouge to find a love he lost nine years before? Of course they are not real people, and the difference is crucial in this talk-as-sex era. Real people talk back, act up, walk out. So let's leave the trend where it belongs: onscreen, in the season's smartest, funniest...
Just last year Herbert von Karajan bravely declared, "As long as my arm can hold a baton I will remain, and as long as I live there will be no discussion about a successor." But last week the iron chancellor of the Berlin Philharmonic abruptly ended his distinguished 34-year tenure as conductor-for- life. With a curt, 17-line note to West Berlin's new culture minister Anke Martiny, the Salzburg-born Karajan, 81, severed his often troubled relationship with an orchestra widely regarded as the finest in the world. The reason given was ill health...