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Most relieved, of course, were the principal targets of the investigation, Producers Aaron Spelling, 52, and Leonard Goldberg, 46. The two had been accused of trying to cheat investors in ABC's Charlie's Angels, chiefly Actor Robert Wagner, 50, and his actress-wife Natalie Wood, 42, by siphoning off at least $660,000 of Angels 'profits to Starsky and Hutch, a show that the producers owned a larger percentage of. Only slightly less elated were executives at ABC who had approved the transfer of funds and ABC President Elton Rule, 63, a close friend...
With the enormous size and erratic sound of the Bowl, and with the relative paucity of new material, I kept wondering why the Pythons were doing this show. If they were indeed taping the performances for theatrical or television distribution, it seems a bit of a cheat to include so many skits that have already been seen. Much as I love this group, I was ultimately unsatisfied with the show: lots of teasing and panting, but no climax. No encore, either...
Ultimately, The Elephant Man is a cheat. It demands emotional intensity from the audience, but offers very little...
...writers (including many we had despised in high school) rather than pick up the latest highly touted women's novel. We decided, after several hours, that the Victorian women wrote of ethics, moral choices and heroines who understood that there was more to life than simply deciding whether to cheat on their husbands with one man or two. But now there is a far brighter light on the subject. An extraordinary and insightful text, Gilbert and Gubar's The Madwoman in the Attic does precisely what I and my friends were unable to do: explain why these Victorian works remain...
...finger at the "relaxation of moral codes" as a reason for "increased deception." Yet this famous "relaxation" means in practice that Americans have been freed from 19th century sexual taboos - and 19th century hypocrisy. Finally, when was this Golden Age when Americans did not attempt to con and cheat one another? In the days of Tammany Hall perhaps? Or when slaveholders wrote of the self-evident truth that all men are created equal...