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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...important question raised by Heaven Can Wait has to be the future of Beatty's sacting career. He has not made artistic progress in his more recent films, seemingly surrendering to his press image as another pretty-faced glamour boy. The promise of his career as seen in his earlier, more substantial roles, in films like Splendour in the Grass, Bonnie and Clyde, McCabe and Mrs. Miller, and The Parallax View appears undeveloped in his more recent roles as George, the heartily-sexed hairdresser in Shampoo and as Joe Pendleton in this film...

Author: By Ray Bertolino, | Title: Warren, The Megalomaniac | 7/18/1978 | See Source »

...basket of his own making, Q.E.D., Charlie MacArthur is no starry-eyed idealist. Charlie MacArthur is no nut. And having more or less settled that question, he can relax and go back to all the other things Charlie MacArthur is, including owner of the biggest clubhouse a boy and his gang could ever dream...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Maine: A Crank for All Seasons | 7/17/1978 | See Source »

...popped out from under his California rock, you could, hoe him right back under again with a few well-chosen comments about the world's most powerful un-indicated co-conspirator, and all that. It was all good clean fun, with a generously self-righteous flair. Richard Nixon, whipping boy for the soul of America, actually did some good those four years. The man was a sparring partner for a nation struggling against the fat of Bicentennial complacency, always offering his glass jaw as a sacrifice to a nation worried about whether it still held the thunder in its looping...

Author: By Francis J. Connolly, | Title: Just When You Thought It Was Safe... | 7/14/1978 | See Source »

...three years and a million delays (because of legal problems) later, Springsteen's fourth album is here. Unfortunatley, the boy from Asbury Park seems to have lost something during those years, because Darkness on the Edge of Town is not really the album everyone has been wating to hear for so long...

Author: By Joseph B. White, | Title: Erratic Bruce | 7/11/1978 | See Source »

...Russian ambassador, Nikita Tolubeyev, is a member of the Soviet Central Committee and dean of the diplomatic corps, but he is certainly no high commissioner. He is generally regarded by Cuban and foreign contacts alike as a mostly ornamental, rather ineffectual apparatchik and errand boy. In fact, Tolubeyev has complained to his home office that he has difficulty getting access to Fidel. One reason may be that after more than seven years in Havana, Tolubeyev has yet to learn more than a smattering of Spanish. When Fidel wants to coordinate his signals with the Kremlin, he does so by dispatching...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: The Moscow Connection | 7/10/1978 | See Source »

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