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Stavisky himself (Jean-Paul Belmondo) is a two-bit swindler blown up to a Hindenburg of a con man, manipulating fake international corporations and floating fake bond issues. Stavisky thinks he's left his old world of petty fraud behind, and Resnais seems to agree with him, emphasizing the discontinuity between the pickpocket and the cosmopolitan "financier." Stavisky affects history in a way a pickpocket cannot, Resnais maintains; I'affaire Stavisky, when it's blasted out of the water, shakes the Popular Front Government of Leon Blum and forces the deportation of Leon Trotsky, who until then had enjoyed political...
This is not to say that there should be just a balanced "pro-con" set of examples. A one-sided presentation like this is a great deal less helpful to women facing real-world situations and not the idyllic future Loeser envisions...
...from Muskogee would rather die than appear in anything unAmerican. No sweat. Huckleberry Finn contains just the role for Merle Haggard. On March 25, over ABC, he will make his dramatic debut in a TV movie of Mark Twain's classic. He will play Duke, the sweet-talking con man. His country music fans may be disappointed. "I wouldn't want to mix singin' in with the actin'," explains Merle. "That way, if I mess up, I can at least salvage something for my career...
...Alchemist runs smoothly, on an elegant set whose only drawback is that it's such a good suggestion of serious occult mystery that you almost forget how much of a con game The Alchemist is. Mosca's direction is quick, sure, and creative, though the first act only smolders. The Alchemist isn't the kind of cosmically reconciling play that Shakespeare's best comedies are, but it offers its own kind of delights. Most of them come through in this production...
...public service commission last week ordered Consolidated Edison Co. to reduce charges on all-electric homes by anywhere from $50 to $70 a year. The ruling climaxed a year-long rate protest led by Mrs. Christina Jackson of Hartsdale, N.Y. Aghast at the steady rise in her Con Ed bills-they have risen from $56 a month in 1969 to $252, even though she has cut back power consumption sharply-Mrs. Jackson recruited some 4,000 equally pained suburbanites into an active lobby. She cheered last week's decision as "a victory for the small man." In fact...