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...angry withdrawal of a clearly ill-treated team from the island Republic of China, further strained U.S.-Canadian relations and left much of the remaining world bothered about what a West German newspaper called "a dangerous and discouraging precedent." Even many Canadians were unhappy with their Prime Minister, Pierre Elliott Trudeau, over his government's ham-fisted attempt to tamper with the world's premier sports event...
...Universal Studio, where action and disaster epics (Earthquake, Midway and Airport) are house specialties, Producer-Director George Roy Hill is casting Rescue at Entebbe. Over at Paramount, Paddy Chayefsky has been signed to write the script for 90 Minutes at Entebbe, to be directed by Sidney Lumet. Independent Producer Elliott Kastner, meanwhile, is making Assault on Entebbe by revising a script he already had about an Arab-Israeli confrontation. Says a Kastner staffer: "We're ahead and can have the first picture out." But not if 20th Century-Fox rushes into production with its made-for-television film, Mission...
Movies like this are the price audiences have to pay for liking The Sting. Harry (James Caan) and Walter (Elliott Gould) are bumptious turn-of-the-century vaudevillians with more talent for stealing the customers' wallets than for stealing the show. Offstage they drink out of the finger bowls at posh restaurants, swat each other with their hats a la Laurel and Hardy and cause everything they touch to blow up in their faces, from a bottle of champagne to a vial of nitroglycerin. "They're not oafs," someone says of them. "They would require practice to become...
...Tatum. Jarrett's great gift is improvisation, which he weaves effortlessly for as much as 25 minutes at a sitting. His textures are densely contrapuntal, his melodies sometimes Chopinesque. At one moment he can sound like a Latin band on the march, at another like Copland playing variations on Elliott Carter, at still another like Scarlatti in a rhythm and blues romp...
...Gula, Elliott's successor, is a graduate student in personality psychology who has worked as a senior advisor to freshmen for four years...