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...Conti and Christopher Guest. Robert Altman is an estimable director poised for comeback. He even had an idea about opening up the action: by setting this postromantic comedy more or less simultaneously in Manhattan, with its memory of Philip Barry penthouse sophistication, and Paris, locale of many a clockwork farce about the sexual duplicity of the middle class...
That luminosity is largely manifested not in visible light but in invisible X rays that every 11 1/2 minutes, like clockwork, momentarily become more intense. It was the brilliant radiation that enabled EXOSAT, a European X ray- detecting satellite, to find the binary stars, which were hidden from ordinary telescopic view in a globular cluster of stars 20,000 light years away from the earth...
Probably so. But skipping The Pianoplayers is not a good idea. Burgess, 69, has recaptured the same linguistic verve and inventiveness that marked his earlier fiction, especially The Doctor Is Sick (1960) and A Clockwork Orange (1962). He has also created a heroine to rival, in nearly every respect, the comically seedy poet Enderby, hero of four Burgess novels. Ellen Henshaw is an old woman living in the south of France when she decides to set down her memoirs, with the stenographic assistance of one Rolf Marcus, an itinerant and blocked American journalist who needs the lodgings that...
...worked as an assistant to legendary showman Walt Disney, eventually working his way up to director of entertainment at Disney. After 12 years at Disney, he founded his own independent production company, quickly becoming known for his ability to provide live-entertainment spectaculars that worked like clockwork. Earlier this year Tommy Walker Productions was bought out by Radio City Music Hall...
Despite RID's ominous undertones of A Clockwork Orange, most inmates speak highly of the program. "I feel better about myself than I have since I was in the service," says Russell Thomason, 22, who entered Parchman after violating probation on a drug charge...