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...Paris to persuade Sophia Loren to appear in one of his films. He had exactly an hour for the conference, so he launched directly into his serenade, enumerating the reasons why Sophia alone could make his project take wing. Soon he noticed that she was paying only the faintest attention. Eventually the great actress explained: It was the Muppet hour, and she absolutely must see them. A blow to his ego, admitted Lord Grade with a shrug of his cigar, though not an unendurable blow, since Grade's ACC organization finances The Muppet Show. (Grade, who is short, bald...
...brand new musical version of King of Hearts finally ended, the crowd stood up and cheered. You don't usually see that on opening night for anything. There are two possible explanations. First, and most obvious, is that Boston is a pitifully poor town for professional theater; even the faintest whiff of the real thing overjoyed the patrons. Second, and less plausible, lurks the notion that King of Hearts is a great musical. The answer lies between...
...deterministic in mind when he set out. to make this study of how cop and criminal mentalities begin to merge when both have too long inhabited the demimonde. But in the earlier movie, the Depression offered some explanation for Branson's hardness. Here we haven't the faintest idea what motivates these two men in modern-day America. Given O'Neal's skill as a driver, the thought keeps occurring that he could be doing just as well, with a lot less hassle, on the stock-car circuit. And Dern's cynicism easily qualifies...
...sympathetic to Allen's problem. As great comedian to his age, he must have felt that the faintest suggestion of humor would have stirred audiences to a risibility from which he could not recover their attention. But, of course, the absence of wit does not necessarily betoken seriousness; it merely betokens the absence of wit. All Allen really had to avoid was farce. We could have accepted, as a logical outgrowth of his work to date, the rue and irony of a full-scale comedy of middle-class manners, a sympathetically satirical study of the lies by which many...
...president of the board of directors of the corporation, his job will be "to find smart people and listen to what they say." Wyatt adds, "I am about as qualified to manage real estate as I would be to manage the Food Services. I don't have the faintest idea what to do in a kitchen." Zeckhouser shakes her head in the negative as well when professional real estate experience is mentioned...