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...greatest sculptor, the creator of heroic public monuments such as New York's equestrian General Sherman, Chicago's standing Lincoln and Washington's Adams Memorial. His smaller, more intimate portrait reliefs are equally distinguished-naturally enough for an artist who started his career as a cameo cutter. In the first major exhibition of Saint-Gaudens' work in 60 years, Washington's National Portrait Gallery assembled 56 pieces, including portraits of such public figures as Architect Stanford White and Writers William Dean Howells and Robert Louis Stevenson. Among the best are portraits of private citizens...
Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass star in this musical special, which also features Petula Clark. Johnny Carson, Gene Kelly, Lome Greene, James Stewart and Henry Fonda make cameo appearances...
SUNDANCE and Butch labor in the barren vineyards of fin de siecle West. It's 1898 and times are changing. Townspeople have traded in their shooting irons for vests and gold watch chains, the Spanish-American War has begun, and the bicycle appears in a cameo role as the supplanter of the horse. (Mercifully, the automobile doesn't appear; it would have been too poignant.) Outlawing has meanwhile become a depressed industry. A railroad baron hires bounty hunters to drive Butch and Sundance out of business. Butch is willing to be bought out, but not rubbed out. So there ensues...
...palmy life around a movie studio with Eleanor Parker, Peter Haskell and Elizabeth Allen. "Fade-In" features Cameo Performers Raquel Welch, Tony Curtis, Omar Sharif. Premiere...
Talking Their Language. To put their house in order, the Beatles last February called in Allen Klein, 37, a New York City accountant who manages the Rolling Stones and Herman's Hermits. Klein also controls Cameo-Parkway Records, whose stock was delisted by the American Stock Exchange last year because of "an absence of adequate information" about its business dealings. Klein was indicted in New York federal court for income tax evasion in connection with his holding company, Allen Klein & Co. Two weeks ago, he signed a three-year management contract with the Beatles, cutting himself into...