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...Elliott, American offered him and his wife a trip to Hawaii or whatever distant paradise piqued their fancy. Though he is demonstrably honest, Elliott, 61, also drives a hard prairie bargain. He did not much feel like a trip, he said, and anyway his wife will not fly a crop-dusting plane to the next county, much less a 747 to Honolulu. Elliott told American officials, "I'd like to get the cash reward...
...Hamlet, the supporting players have no choice but to be supporting players, yet in this production one sometimes wonders if they are supporting Hamlet. As Claudius, James Earl Jones has evolved an eccentric interpretation, bubbling with some roguish interior humor and bursting into toothy, malicious glee. Given a riding crop, he might be the head of an old Hollywood studio rather than the ruler of a realm. An oddly placid Colleen Dewhurst makes Gertrude seem more the painted than the panting queen. Barnard Hughes' Polonius is the traditional chalk-dust didactician, but Kitty Winn's mad scene does...
...considerable boost from the rise of consumerism in the U.S. Consumer Crusader Ralph Nader has successfully taken on big targets-the auto companies, food industry, etc.-that have long seemed impervious to the complaints of individuals. The institution of the ombudsman, long familiar in Europe, has begun to crop up in the U.S. to represent the interests of beleaguered citizens in contention with government bureaucracy. In many U.S. cities, radio and TV stations have set up special sections to deal with audience complaints about everything from landlords to late Social Security checks...
...Thus there will be two key Picasso sculptures in the U.S. (the other is the sheet-metal Guitar, 1912), and MOMA has them both, as presents from the artist. Picasso's evident fondness for the museum-which already has the best collection of his work anywhere-started a crop of new rumors about the possible destination of the huge collection of Picasso's own Picassos after his death...
This is the third in the current bumper crop of rodeo movies...