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...have taken a post in the early Carter Administration if one had been offered, but he now concludes that his new life in Paris is too good to leave. "What the hell," he says with a Gallic shrug, "I have the best job in the world." He is also fond of quoting an earlier American in Paris, Thomas Jefferson, who once remarked: "Every man has two countries-his own and France...
...Mary Tyler Moore, Carol Burnett and Dick Van Dyke have learned, high Nielsen ratings do not necessarily pave the way to a successful film career Television fans don't like to pay good money to see stars they can see at home for free, nor are they fond of watching their favorite performers playing new roles. Winkler is surely aware of these potential pitfalls, but he has nonetheless jumped into the fray. In Heroes, a determinedly high-minded movie, he drops his Fonzie mannerisms to play Jack Dunne, a crazy Viet Nam veteran who escapes from a VA psycho...
...office is seeking the death penalty, and Davis has hired a team of nine lawyers, supplemented by twelve investigators and secretaries, to represent him. Foremost among them is Richard ("Racehorse") Haynes, a flamboyant character fond of hand-tooled ostrich-hide boots and aggressive tactics of crossexamination. "My wealth has worked against me," Davis laments, ruefully noting his lawyers' failure to get him released on bail over the past 14 months, but he has managed to carry on his business from a phone in the judge's chambers and to dine with cronies in a vacant jury room...
...waterfront could only have been from an elegant carriage on the sloping road above. The work shows an afternoon hazyhot, captured forever beneath a coat of varnish, fresh sea air sealed in with this sketch of an age one imagines in likewise indefinite terms. Binet was very fond of flowers and there are several rather innocuous but decorative paintings of poppies, roses or a flowering tree over a stream. And yet one begins to wonder about this artist while looking at "Saint Mandrier," a view of boats moored at a dock. Painted in 1943, it is almost identical technically...
...Providence around noon, so I'll meet you at the corner where the kid sells Ivy League pennants. This should really bring back some fond memories, because remember how many times Dad used to drag me to Brown to see football games on Saturday afternoons. You know what, I don't think Brown ever won. And you know what else. I would have much preferred to stay home and play touch football in Buttonwood Park than see Brown-Lafayette games in Providence...