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...that they seem remotely vigorous when the curtain rises. Weller (Cronyn) is in a rumpled bathrobe, and his cane is the only leg he can really count on. Fonsia (Tandy) is encased in a mummy sack of a housedress, and she seems too utterly drained of strength to lift her frowzy bedroom slippers from the floor when she walks. Their mutual terrain is a porch that is peeling in genteel decay. They know all about decay; they are waiting-desperate, lonely, trapped-to find out about death...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Heart Burns | 10/17/1977 | See Source »

...ending is gaspingly melodramatic and violates the stream of plausible behavior. Maddened by Fonsia's gloating shout of "Gin!" Weller takes a murderous swipe at her with his cane. When she ducks, he tries to demolish the card table in his fury. Perhaps Mike Nichols, whose unobtrusive direction is a model of purity throughout, ought to have the cane shatter on the final blow to indicate the end of this pitiable pair's relationship and of their lives. - T.E. Kalem

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Heart Burns | 10/17/1977 | See Source »

...Middleburg, Va., backyard-and charged $35 a couple admission. And why not? Hostess Elizabeth Taylor Warner was sponsoring a political fund raiser for Republican Gubernatorial Candidate John Dalton. Because of a painful flare-up of bursitis, Liz, clad in blue jeans and red silk slippers, hobbled about on a cane. Before giving a brief welcoming speech, she impulsively went for a helicopter ride with Husband John Warner and the Daltons, sweeping low over her 160-year-old farmhouse and 2,000 acres of pasture land. "Being in a helicopter to me is like being on a rollercoaster...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Oct. 3, 1977 | 10/3/1977 | See Source »

...Hotel. Looking on genially, Principal William Scheid says, "This is the night they pull out all the stops." Senior Donald McNeff does just that as he arrives with his date in a chauffeur-driven limousine. He is wearing a white tux and top hat, and he is carrying a cane. Delighted by creating a momentary sensation, he explains: "I wanted to have some fun for once. Everywhere we stopped, people freaked out." McNeff has arranged to keep the limousine, at a cost of $25 an hour, to carry him and his friends to a nearby motel for several hours...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AMERICAN SCENE: Taking a Last, Gaudy Fling | 6/13/1977 | See Source »

...Ultimate Gumball. Chewing gum is no novelty, either. Only Alan Silverstone, 35, has made it so. He sees himself as a real-life Willie Wonka. He even dresses the part of the fictional candymaker, donning velvet tuxedo, ruffled shirt, red velvet bow tie, top hat and cane. It seems a bizarre role for a onetime Wall Street investment banker with degrees in law, business administration and economics. But Uncle Al, the Kiddies' Pal, as he thinks of himself, is not just living out a childhood fantasy. The owner of Oakland's U.S. Chewing Gum Manufacturing Co. since...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Hot New Rich | 6/13/1977 | See Source »

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