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...Boston Red Sox traded Rick Burleson and third baseman Clell "Butch" Hobson to the California Angels last night in exchange for infielder Carney Lansford, outfielder Rick Miller and relief pitcher Mark Clear...
Lorenzo has become the flying ace in the new era of unregulated airline routes and prices. After graduating from Harvard Business School in 1963 and working as a financial analyst for Trans World Airlines and Eastern, Lorenzo and Robert Carney teamed up to form their own airline management consulting firm. In 1971 they paid $1.1 million for controlling interest in Texas International, a small, regional carrier nicknamed "Texas Treetop" because of its poor service and antiquated planes. At the time it was losing $6 million a year on revenues of $70 million...
Most bad movies take a few minutes to reveal their worst sins. Going in Style announces its mediocrity right away. As the heroes (George Burns, Art Carney, Lee Strasberg) are first seen sitting on a park bench in Queens and making introductory small talk, Going in Style lapses into immediate and terminal catatonia. The actors are listless. The camera does not move. The lines are separated by silences that would give Harold Pinter pause. One strong whiff of Going in Style, and the audience is transported directly to slumberland. For the next 90 minutes, there is little reason to stir...
Worse still is Brest's maltreatment of his cast. Though Burns and Carney are virtually fail-safe comics, the film's clunky timing robs them of their laughs. The crabby Strasberg is given free rein to show off his entire catalogue of italicized acting gestures. It says something about this movie that one feels nothing even when two of the three supposedly lovable heroes die. When a film is as moribund as Going in Style, death is not a tragedy but merely an anticlimax...
Truffaut was the director whom Producer Stanley Jaffe first hired for Kramer. When scheduling conflicts developed, Jaffe turned to Benton. Though he has directed only two previous movies, Bad Company (an antic western with Jeff Bridges) and The Late Show (an eccentric detective story with Art Carney and Lily Tomlin), Benton's career stretches back over a decade. With his longtime writing partner, David Newman, he co-authored the most influential film script of the '60s, Bonnie and Clyde, which, like Kramer, leavened conflict with smart wit. He and Newman also collaborated on such diverse '70s movies...