Word: businessman
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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CESAR AND ROSALIE. For some reason Gallic romances seem to require an inordinate amount of automobile travel, and the principals in this soggy little love story are forever wheeling off in passionate pursuit of one another. Cesar (Yves Montand) is a buoyant businessman, a self-made success, enamored of Rosalie (Romy Schneider), who loves him and yields to him but always, somehow, eludes him. David (Sami Frey), who looks like Warren Beatty after two weeks on a health farm, is a cartoonist also in love with Rosalie. At first dazzled by her two determined suitors, Rosalie scurries between them, settling...
When Dallas Lawyer-Businessman Robert Strauss was elected chairman of the Democratic National Committee (TIME, Dec. 18), many McGovernites prepared for the worst. They expected him to do to them what they had done to so many of their adversaries in the party-dump them. But that is not his style of politics. Since his election three weeks ago, he has been trying to bring some cohesion to the fractured Democrats. In fact, he wants the party to be a family ball. "Goddam!" he says. "Let's make this party a place where you can have a laugh...
...Gogh-went out the back door to a dealer for a rumored total of $1.5 million. He might have tried Japan first. Last week Tokyo Art Dealer Tokushichi Hasegawa took delivery of the Rousseau, which he had bought from Marlborough Fine Art in London and resold to an Osaka businessman (anonymous, for "tax reasons") for $2,000,000. Said Hasegawa who, at 33, is vice president of Nichido Gallery, Japan's largest art shop: "I only felt sorry that I couldn't pick up the Van Gogh as well...
Died. René Mayer, 77, ubiquitous Cabinet minister in the postwar governments of France and its Premier for four months in 1953; in Paris. A businessman (railroads) turned politician. Mayer fled to Algiers in 1943. As a member of the Radical Socialists in the postwar French Assembly, he proved himself a hard-headed technician capable of self-preservation during the Fourth Republic's era of musical-chair governments. In 1955, Mayer was named president of the European Coal and Steel Community, which eventually evolved into the Common Market...
...first part of the movie, which concentrates mostly on Bishop's devices for dispatching his victims, is the best-cold, fast and intricate. Pretty soon, after murdering a Hollywood businessman, Bishop decides to be friend the man's son (Jan-Michael Vincent) and even to tutor him in all the tricks of the profession. The kid has his own personal reasons for playing the star pupil...