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...ponderously turns to thoughts of airline hostesses. This despite the fact that Nick Callan (Len Cariou) is engaged in a less taxing rite of renewal-joining with his wife (Sandy Dennis) and their best friends the Zimmers (Jack Weston and Rita Moreno) and the Burroughses (Alan Alda and Carol Burnett) to open the latter's vacation house for the season...
Alda is less secure in dealing with the women. Moreno has no role. The Sandy Dennis character is excessively loony even for a person caught up in the crisis of separation. Except for the confrontation scene with Alda, Carol Burnett is a bystander, but without being intrusive, she creates an appealing character through her intelligent responses to the action swirling about her. But it is Armstrong, playing the young intruder, who gets to comment on the habits and assumptions of these old friends and so has the best female role...
...cast of characters in the plot was, well, odd. The conspirators included a gay vigilante, a mystery-man gunrunner with the novelish name of Sydney Burnett-Alleyne, a nurse cum spy with Irish Republican Army connections, and an ousted Prime Minister with alleged ties to South African industrialists. The gang, it appears, was intent on a coup to capture the impoverished Caribbean island of Dominica (pop. 81,000), a true banana republic (70% of exports) that is physically no bigger than Lexington...
...Minister of all-black Dominica. Among those she defeated was a predecessor, Patrick John, 44, driven from office in 1979 after a BBC documentary charged that his plans for island industrialization included an oil refinery that would benefit South Africa. John's go-between was said to be Burnett-Alleyne, a convicted smuggler who once recruited mercenaries to invade Barbados. The Charles administration believes the ten Americans, who were apprehended with an arsenal of automatic weapons and plastic explosives, were to enforce a government takeover by John-in cahoots, perhaps, with the island's marijuana growers...
...Louis Harris poll shows that those who express "a great deal of confidence" in the press have decreased over the past 15 years from 29% to 19%. Another hint of popular displeasure may be the outsize $1.6 million libel award a jury gave the entertainer Carol Burnett when she won her suit against the National Enquirer. Nobody rushes to defend the shoddy gossiping of the Enquirer-beyond its First Amendment "right" to print it. Even though gossip and personality stories have become a major journalistic trend, the Enquirer does it to excess. The press has other, permanently hostile critics always...