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...highest pleasure Atlantic City has to offer is a little essay on fastidiousness by Burt Lancaster. That is not a quality one automatically associates with a star who was once the most macho of leading men. But in the past decade, working with such daring directors as Bertolucci, Altman and Visconti and on such underrated genre pieces as Ulzana 's Raid and Go Tell the Spartans, Lancaster has become a resourceful and wide-ranging character actor. Here he is playing Lou, a small-time crook who seems to feel neatness just might count in the battle to keep...
...Steve Nieve puts some jolly tinkling all over the album, but I can't help feeling that he's a bit of a middlebrow even as he's sending up middlebrow music. That's okay; I'm a bit of a middlebrow myself, and Elvis loves Cole Porter and Burt Bacharach. So "You'll Never Be a Man" comes out a dandy pop tune, Elvis blithely propositioning a poor woman who's "under the table with a chemical snake." (People think they're tough in this world, but they're jellybeans.) "Pretty Words" ("don't mean much anymore/I...
...high interest rates, producers want to release films that will make their money back quickly. This means recycling the familiar into the surefire: 1980's biggest hit was The Empire Strikes Back, George Lucas' sequel to Star Wars. It means signing box-office stars at huge salaries: Burt Reynolds pulled in a reported $5 million for The Cannonball Run, Barbra Streisand $4.6 million for All Night Long. Directors are stars too: Francis Ford Coppola was offered $3 million to direct One from the Heart. Says Director Martin Scorsese, 38: "We're working ourselves right out of jobs...
...Sammy Davis Jr. at Atlanta's Civic Center last week was a starry burst of altruism: the $148,000 in concert receipts went into municipal coffers drained by the costs of investigating the murders of 20 black children. Halfway through the three-hour benefit -in which Native Georgian Burt Reynolds and Singer Roberta Flack appeared-Sinatra declared his "sadness and love" for Atlantans "frightened by day and doubly frightened by night." Furthermore, Sinatra assured his audience of 4,600, "honorable people still outnumber dishonorable deeds...
...cover part of the expense for the first ten months of 1981. The Justice Department has responded with an offer of more than $200,000, though at least 26 FBI agents have been assigned to the investigation. Donations from numerous citizens, including Eastern Airlines Chief Frank Borman and Actor Burt Reynolds, have topped $60,000. Another $100,000 is expected from the March 10 benefit organized by Sammy Davis Jr. and Frank Sinatra...