Word: beau
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Moss had arranged to put most of the passengers up at Geneva's staid and very luxe Beau-Rivage, but the hotel's manager, Roland Cirafici, 45, was so shocked by the crowd that he refused to accept Moss's prearranged credit, and police briefly delayed the DC-8 just before it was ready to take off. On board with his wife and their son America, Pop Revolutionary Abbie Hoffman moaned, "If I don't get back to Chicago on time, I'll be in contempt of court again...
...stars for the first time with Laurence Olivier, 67, Hepburn shucked her heavy Edwardian costume for her between-takes exercise and accepted a welcome cuppa char. Katie plays a retired actress being sued for breach of promise by a young man and defended in court by her old beau, Barrister Olivier. Says Producer Allan Davis: "The actress, lawyer and young man spend the picture jockeying for position, just like in the shooting." As for Hepburn, she seems most concerned about keeping...
...succeeded all too well. Many Frenchmen regard Chaban, who was a national tennis finalist in 1965, as a "playboy," not sérieux enough to be President. Married three times, in a Catholic country where divorce is still a political handicap, he has become saddled with the nicknames "Beau Jacques"and "Charmant Delmas." Moreover, he still has a slight scent of scandal about him. He was dismissed by Pompidou in 1972 partly because it was found he had used loopholes to avoid paying taxes...
Anthony Perkins and Beau Bridges agreeably aw-shucks their way along through life with her, but Producer Stephen Friedman's adaptation of Larry McMurtry's novel Leaving Cheyenne does not give the actors any emotionally revealing scenes to play. The script's dominant and ultimately boring mode is half-expressed rue leavened by quaint down-home turns of phrase. In attempting to cover four decades in an hour and a half, the story uses an enormous amount of voice-over narration. The device does not exactly enhance our involvement with the film. Director Lumet, venturing...
Systems and Signs. There is no longer any difficulty in seeing the best of pop as a mannered game with art language, rather than a vulgarian's assault on le beau et le bien. Ten years ago, Art Historian Robert Rosenblum predicted that "the initially unsettling imagery of pop art will quickly be dispelled by the numbing effects of iconographical familiarity, and ephemeral or enduring pictorial values will become explicit...