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...another, Sonnenberg handled the p.r. needs of CBS, Philip Morris, David Sarnoff, Lever Brothers, Samuel Goldwyn, Pan Am, Squibb, Pepperidge Farm and others too numerous to count. A prodigios host and incessant partygiver, he was Manhattan's equivalent of the "talking chief on other, Polynesian islands-the chamberlain who enunciates the real chiefs dicta to the tribe, or, as he put it himself, "I supply the Listerine to the commercial dandruff on the shoulders of corporations." As an American success story, Sonnenberg's was cast in the old epic mold...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Dismantling an Opulent Fossil | 2/12/1979 | See Source »

...story at Brown is coach Joe Mullany, once a Los Angeles Laker steward when Wilt Chamberlain played center. Mullany has put together a disciplined team in the model of Pete Caril's squads at Princeton, but with less talent. The Bruins are a defensive club, permitting their opponents just 65 points a game compared to Harvard...

Author: By Laura E. Schanberg, | Title: Hoopsters Face Yale, Brown | 2/9/1979 | See Source »

...this point Weir gets in trouble. Chamberlain goes to see an expert on Aborigine life, and she explains to him that the Aborigines believe in a dream time, a world of dreams in which the living communicate with the dead, a world in tune with time, nature and life, which is as real as our present-day reality. Things begin to tie in: Chamberlain's dreams... the Aborigines... the strange events in the weather. But it's too easy. Weir has spent a great deal of time building tension, creating atmosphere, invloving the audience, and to resolve the entire plot...

Author: By Tom Hines, | Title: A Thousand and One Aborigines | 1/22/1979 | See Source »

...film increasingly silly. Weir gives up on making the characters anything more than symbols, points on the line between evil white and primitive good. A few scenes of the ghetto in which the Aborigines live are lifeless, the city has no character, and the film disintegrates into stock effects. Chamberlain discovers a secret Aborigine city beneath Sydney, and learns that an ancient white civilization was destroyed by a giant tidal wave, and that another one is due very soon. Some sort of eternal justice will destroy the white man's injustice. At the very end of the film, Chamberlain escapes...

Author: By Tom Hines, | Title: A Thousand and One Aborigines | 1/22/1979 | See Source »

...view of the apocalypse is enough to have an impact. But aside from the fact that one never sees the wave hit Sydney, the reasons given for its appearance aren't too terribly plausible. There is a magnificent scene which sets up the wave, the highpoint of the film: Chamberlain is in his car and daydreams that the wave has hit and as he looks outside he sees well-dressed pedestrians floating beneath the blue-gray water, groceries floating slowly upwards. But this scene occurs three-quarters of the way through the movie, and it is all downhill form there...

Author: By Tom Hines, | Title: A Thousand and One Aborigines | 1/22/1979 | See Source »

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