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...Howard Hughes caper has blasted Nina van Pallandt off to stardom. The Danish singer and actress has done her fetching thing on the Dick Cavett and David Frost shows. She has been approached by four major record companies and two film companies. Nightclub offers have been piling in from Canada, the Bahamas, Florida, Mexico, San Francisco and Las Vegas (including one from a Hughes-owned hotel). "She's had more exposure in one week than Tom Jones has had in his whole career," bubbles Nina's manager, John Marshall. "Why, she got 5,000 letters and telegrams last...
Years ago, when Edmund Wilson wrote an acerbic essay on mystery novels, his title - and his theme - was "Who Cares Who Killed Roger Ackroyd?" The same skepticism might be directed toward a subspecies of the mystery genre known as the caper story, wherein a skilled handful of professionals try to steal a certain invaluable object from a certain impregnable fortress. The trouble with such yarns is that they tend to be about mechanics, not people. Unable to believe in the characters, who could care that the fuse won't light or the tumblers won't fall...
...Rock apparently aimed to be the caper movie to end them all. Unfortunately, it probably won't. William Goldman has transferred the patty-cake banter of his Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid to contemporary New York City, where he unleashes a quartet of schlemiel heist men (Robert Redford, George Segal, Ron Leibman, Paul Sand). Their task is to lift a gem called the Sahara stone and turn it over to the pompous African diplomat (Moses Gunn) who contracted for the job. They go to a lot of elaborate trouble to break into places. The gimmick is that...
...NIXON RECESSION CAPER by RALPH MALONEY 192 pages. Norton...
...Martin Ackerman, were holding a late-night post-mortem in Ackerman's town house when TIME'S Frank McCulloch and John Goldman of the Los Angeles Times angled their way in. Until then, Irving had never varied in pitch or detail his account of the entire Hughes caper, as he traced and retraced his steps under intense questioning. This time he cracked...