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With a scathing denunciation of "massive adverse pretrial publicity," Federal Judge J. Robert Elliott last September threw out Army Lieut. William Calley's conviction for his part in the 1968 My Lai massacre. Last week 13 judges of the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals unanimously rejected Elliott's conclusion about news coverage. Otherwise, wrote Judge Robert A. Ainsworth Jr., "the inevitable results would be that truly heinous or notorious acts would go unpunished." Besides, he added, the members of the Calley court-martial panel were scrupulously examined for their ability to be fair and open-minded. Five appeals...
...They are like Hope and Crosby, like Laurel and Hardy. They have just the right chemistry," says Director Mark Rydell of his current stars, James Caan and Elliott Gould. On location in Mansfield, Ohio, for the filming of a comedy titled Harry and Walter Go to New York, the pair portray 1890s vaudevillians who end up in prison with an urbane safecracker, played by Michael Caine. Caan and Gould get wind of Caine's plot to break out of jail and into a bank, and before long they are racing him to the vault. To the actual habitues...
...exhausted, appears as an intelligence operative named Shaver, suspended from the Royal Canadian Mounted Police for decking a superior officer. Looking for a little freelance work to fill in the time before he goes back to his regular job, Shaver is recruited by a cynical spy named Petapiece (Denholm Elliott), the sort of fellow who sneaks a drag on someone's cigarette if it is left untended for a moment. Petapiece's proposition to Shaver is the elimination of Henke, a notorious political troublemaker who may be plotting to assassinate Premier Aleksei Kosygin during his imminent visit...
Beacon Hill is about an Irish family newly arrived at affluence and influence in Boston during the 1920s. Old Benjamin Lassiter (Stephen Elliott) was obviously suggested by Old Joe Kennedy: bootleg whisky and ward politics are his main concerns. The children, however, are not at all like the Kennedys. The only son, Robert, mopes around drinking mostly because he left an arm in Flanders fields. He does provide what passes for the central dramatic point of the first episode by leaving a formal dinner party to visit a cathouse. As for his sisters, they are an equally sorry lot: Fawn...
GEORGIA'S ELLIOTT LEVITAS. When Levitas, 44, went to Washington last January, he was not as optimistic or naive as many members of his entering class. For nearly a decade, Levitas had been in and around the state legislature, learning that lawmaking, like politics, is the art of the possible...