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Directed by LAMONT JOHNSON Screenplay by ROBBY BENSON and JERRY SEGAL...
...George Benson: In Flight (Warner Bros.). One record can make a man rich for the rest of his life. Breezin', Benson's 1976 LP, turned the trick for the guitarist-singer. He took the premier spot on the jazz, rock, soul and easy-listening charts. His name began cropping up on network TV. George bought a Mercedes. He was a star. How did success affect his music? If anything, it improved it. In Flight is his finest album so far. The material spans a wide stylistic range, from Benson's silky vocal on the Nat "King" Cole...
...this corruption clear without sacrificing principles. Satire would have allowed a director to point out major flaws effectively, albeit at the expense of the film's few moments of pathos. But Network is not a funny movie. Satire is used only once, in the scene when corporate magnate Arthur Benson, played superbly by Ned Beatty, gives Howard Beale the multinational creed. (Not coincidentally, it is the most effective scene in the film...
...will work under Lucy W. Benson, former Secretary of Human Affairs under Gov. Michael S. Dukakis and former president of the National League of Women Voters...
...accepted the post because the issue of proliferation strikes me as extremely important, and also because Mrs. Benson is going to be an exciting woman to work under," Nye said, adding that he was "favorably impressed" with Benson...