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...part on a whim and got it. "I became an actor out of curiosity," he said during a Kojak shooting break last week in Hollywood, "and at first my career was fascinating because the parts were varied." Savalas won an Academy nomination for playing a convict colleague of Burt Lancaster's in the 1962 movie Birdman of Alcatraz. The studios then typecast him in a long series of heavy roles, notably the swinish pervert in The Dirty Dozen (1967). When Hollywood sagged as a film center in the '60s, Savalas moved his wife Lynn and their three daughters...
...Action, like a low-grade, seedy shoot-'em-up. Dalton Trumbo's script is based on a story written in part by Mark Lane, the lawyer and assassination-conspiracy buff. Real names of persons and places are used except where they would be most crucial. The conspirators-Burt Lancaster, Robert Ryan, Will Geer and John Anderson among them-are assigned fictional names, but only the vaguest identides. Ryan, the force behind the plot, is wealthy; Lancaster apparently is a maverick intelligence operative; Geer, an elderly man who has oil interests. Such sketchiness satisfies the requirements of neither history...
PROMISES, PROMISES, by Burt Bacharach and Neil Simon and all those people. Mostly unfulfilled, according to The Crimson. Benefits Radcliffe Grant-in-Aid. 8 p.m. at Agassiz...
...VIRGINIA, there really is a Helen Gurley Brown, and her Cosmopolitan girl thrives wildly these days at Agassiz Theater. Radcliffe-Grant-in-Aid plays the part of the protective mother who can't hold back her ambitious child in its current production of the Burt Bacharach-Hal David-Neil Simon office party, Promises, Promises...
...STONE KILLER stars Charles Bronson, who will not go away. It was directed by the equally persistent Michael Winner, who spins out at least a couple of features a year, most recently a vehicle for Burt Lancaster (Scorpio) as well as another one for Bronson (The Mechanic). Here Winner attempts to counterbalance Branson's concrete immobility by immersing him in a plot full of flash and frenzy. It is a mostly futile effort. The script, about a rogue cop, is patterned closely enough on Dirty Harry to be called Grubby Lou. There is a series of slaughters, apparently having...