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...Film Flam--Ropes-Gray Room, Roscoe Pound Bldg...
Less feisty bookmen admit that they are already moving unsold books out of their warehouses at an accelerated pace. Says Viking Treasurer Theodore Flam: "We're talking about a reverse effect on cash flow. We are losing money on our inventory, and we can't afford to. We might not be publishing the marginal, slower-selling books any longer. It's costing publishers tax money up front now. Publishing, in the end, will lose out." Hard-pressed houses are being forced to remainder their stock (sell it at a large discount and turn the loss into...
...career, he profiled Dollar Bill Bradley, one of the four or five greatest college basketball players of all time. A decent man, a hard-working man, a disciplined man, in the last analysis a dull man. McPhee celebrates the cerebral boredom that marked Bradley's game-"He dislikes flam-boyance, and, unlike some of basketball's greatest stars, has apparently never made a move merely to attract attention...Bradley calls practically all men 'Mister' whose age exceeds his won by more than a couple of years." The piece gives some insight into the dynamics of a hook shot, stresses...
Lucas said when he was making Star Wars that he was giving up directing, and, true to his word, SWII will be directed by Irvin Kershner (The Flim Flam Man and Raid on Entebbe). "But I've always thought," he says, "that sooner or later, somewhere down the road, I will go back and do another one. But it will be toward the end of the cycle, about 20 years from now." Would you believe...
Last week a show of this late Matisse work opened at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. Later it will travel to Detroit and St. Louis. Organized by four art historians-Jack Cowart, Jack D. Flam, Dominique Fourcade and John Hallmark Neff-it is a brilliant start to the art season. This is not the definitive exhibition of Matisse's cutouts; it includes 58 works, about a quarter of the known total. But if it does not exhaust Matisse's achievement as découpeur, it offers an unstinted sense of buoyancy. Matisse liked to talk...