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...three Gibb brothers, known as the Bee Gees, live in a wealthy enclave in Miami Beach. Barry Gibb's wife Lynda had her purse snatched. The trio's father Hugh Gibb was mugged. "No woman should be alone in this city," says Barry. "Or man," adds Bee Gee Brother Robin. Residents of nearby Golden Beach obviously agree: the city council voted last month to close six of the seven streets leading into town, and place a gate and a guard at the seventh...
...those, in line with Henry James' advice, on whom nothing is lost. Driving around Brewer, he registers what is playing at the four-theater movie complex (ALIEN MOONRAKER MAIN EVENT ESCAPE FROM ALCATRAZ); he listens to disco on the car radio and muses on the accomplishment of the Bee Gees, "white men who have done this wonderful thing of making themselves sound like black women...
...Danny Aiello), the father, is a low-paid waiter and loudmouthed gambler who dreams of hitting the numbers big so that he can run away with his popsy (Ellen March). The domineering mother Enid (Beatrice Arthur) has a tongue with the sting of a killer bee. The 17-year-old son Paul (Brian Backer) has a sky-high IQ and plays truant to go to magic shows. Abysmally lonely, he retreats to his room to polish his own legerdemain, as Allen's boy figure did in the film Stardust Memories. Running into a flyweight booking agent (Jack Weston), Enid...
There are only a few distractions that can divert the Bushmen from a guerrilla's trail. An entire unit will come to a halt to collect and devour the honey from a wild-bee comb in a tree, for instance. And the presence of a hyena anywhere in the vicinity is likely to bring on inexplicable and uncontrollable fits of derisive laughter from the Bushmen. Otherwise, they have won the respect of their South African officers. "They've taught me what survival means," says one. "For all their small stature, they can put some of our big stocky...
...pair agree on almost everything, which often leads to the confused comment: "I read it in 'Ann Landers'-or was it 'Dear Abby'?" Some connoisseurs think they can detect a difference. When the Modesto Bee (circ. 65,490) asked its readers last October to vote on which column to run, Landers won by a landslide, 837 to 97. But most readers-and editors -agree with Austin American-Statesman (circ. 128,093) Managing Editor Jeff Bruce, whose paper, like many others, carries both columns. Says he: "I suspect most readers cannot tell one from the other...