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...reporter for the Los Angeles Times, says of the series so far: "The writing is kind of hack and it has a screaming or vigilante tone to it that detracts from the fine work the group has done. Their real purpose is not to say Barry Goldwater is a crook but to show the atmosphere of arrogance and poor regard...
...Jeff Crook Minneapolis
...team of agents?their allegiance never identified?breaks in to rip the stuff off. Two are stopped, but one gets away and, infected with the plague, boards an international express train bound for Sweden. For reasons n.f.e., Burt Lancaster, the American intelligence agent in charge of arresting both crook and disease, orders the cars sealed (to prevent an epidemic), then diverts the express to Poland over a rickety bridge scarcely able to sustain the weight of a handcar. Lancaster persists in this curious decision despite information that spontaneous remission is occurring in all those infected...
When Carlo Gambino died last October at 74, practically every cop, crook and crime reporter in the country wondered who would replace him as the new capo di tutti capi, the boss of all bosses -in other words, the Godfather. Last week, a rash of stories in the New York press-the Times, the Daily News and New York magazine-crowned a new Godfather: longtime Racketeer Carmine Galante...
...second act of Stealing, this chaos of the maids seems to rule too often. The act's second song, "He's a crook!", which is sung by the maids, denies what we have just seen two scenes earlier. The major problem in the act however--slightly underrehearsed but good choreographed numbers--can be easily fixed if the show takes a well-deserved extension of its run next weekend...