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...Jill Clayburgh and Walter Matthau in a scene from their new film First Monday in October, due out this fall. In the movie, named after the first sitting of the high court each autumn, Matthau, 60, plays a crusty, liberal Supreme Court Justice. Clayburgh, 35, portrays a conservative Californian who becomes the first woman appointed to the high court. Though Matthau gets entangled in legal briefs, First Monday will be one of the few films in which he will not pad around in an undershirt and boxer shorts. In fact, for shots outside the Supreme Court Building in Washington...
...Relations Committee, if not on his foreign policy views, then on his actions as Richard Nixon's chief of staff during the final months of the Watergate crisis. So four days before the hearing opened, he met privately with Republican Senators on the committee to work out what Californian S.I. Hayakawa delicately called "friendly" answers to the expected hostile questions. But when Alexander Meigs Haig Jr., Ronald Reagan's nominee for Secretary of State, finally sat down last week at the green baize covered conference table in packed Room 1202 of the Dirksen Office Building and faced...
...perhaps more importantly, the team might have found itself a new leader in the 6-ft. 8-in. Carrabino. The brawny Californian took charge several times in the game--once hitting ten straight Harvard points--and now appears to be the man the Crimson will look to when the need a basket...
Perhaps the most interesting museum show by a living artist to be seen in New York at present is at the Whitney: "Light and Space," by a 37-year-old Californian named James Turrell. A spare-time pilot and full-time sculptor, Turrell has filled an entire floor of the Whitney with almost nothing: some walls, some tungsten and fluorescent lamps, and the reactions between them. To say that he has posed some ingenious visual conundrums on an ambitious scale is true, but insufficient. Turrell has also contrived an exquisite poetry out of near emptiness...
Acting as if he did not have a care in the world, Ronald Reagan might have been just another wealthy, leisured Californian doing his routine chores last week. He visited his tailor, barber and butcher, where he picked up two shopping bags of veal and beef from his private meat locker in the town of Thousand Oaks. To some 50 people who turned out to greet him, he remarked: "You mean to tell me a farmer doing his work is of this much interest...