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...friend and partner in All Girl Productions, "she's basically shy. She'd never think of wearing anything low cut. She calls herself a librarian." No dust on this star's bookshelves. "She's a cleanliness freak," notes Bruckheimer-Martell. "She calls herself Harriet Craig, after the Joan Crawford character who was constantly cleaning." Manilow recalls Bette's perfectionism, "from neatness at home to the 95th take of a song. Once we were walking on a Chicago beach, deep in conversation. She kept picking up bottles and caps, all this crap in the middle of our heavy talk, dumping...
THERE ARE SOME bright spots, however. The Brattle Theatre reopened last week after a two month absence, and the new management plans to offer an eclectic repetoir of classic, foreign and independent films, as well as live performance. The opening night celebration the 1952 Joan Crawford thriller Sudden Fear was followed by films and performances by such local musical acts as Treat Her Right and Roger Miller. Future programming includes such themes as film noir, women directors and the Japanese New Wave...
...studios of venerable Paramount Pictures, a subsidiary of Gulf & Western. A year ago, the company that distributed one of the first Hollywood feature-length movies (The Squaw Man, 1914) was close to the ropes, its revenues sagging and its film larder practically bare. Today, in the words of Gordon Crawford, senior vice president of Capital Guardian Research, a Los Angeles investment-management firm, "they're having the greatest year of any company in the recent history of the movie business...
...Horror Aesthete H.P. Lovecraft, Gordon finds florid visual correlatives for Lovecraft's eldritch prose, then adds a heavy dose of '80s psychosexuality. One messy kiss from the late Dr. Pretorious (Ted Sorel), and a cool blond psychiatrist (Barbara Crampton) gets tarted up in dominatrix leather to revive Nerdy Genius Crawford Tillinghast (Jeffrey Combs) by any means at hand. Heady stuff...
...black leaders in Boston and New York City have denounced the clinics as racist. In Chicago, 13 black clergymen are suing to block distribution of contraceptives at the DuSable High School clinic. Says the Rev. Hiram Crawford: "If these clinics are so good for black kids, why don't they put them in white areas? It's a form of genocide. Why do they so readily recommend abortion...