Word: franked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...tiresome performance that will be particularly grating on anyone who has seen the mannerisms previously in Chinatown and Network. Dunaway does, however, have the only credible line in the movie. It occurs midway through her love scene, when she announces, "I'm completely out of control." - Frank Rich...
...double album in 1976, has failed to catch on in the States. Still, all is not necessarily lost. If Stigwood can only find a way to package the show that is playing outside the Prince Edward Theater instead of the one onstage, he might yet have a hit here. -Frank Rich...
...DIED. Frank Fontaine, 56, comedian known as "Crazy Guggenham"; of a heart attack; in Spokane, Wash. A zany second banana to Jackie Gleason on TV during the '60s. Fontaine had just completed a benefit show and accepted a check for $25,000, which he planned to donate for heart research, when he collapsed...
...competing needs for government secrecy and the public right to know have long posed a dilemma for Western democracies. In the U.S., the most recent example is the case of Frank Snepp, the former CIA agent who was ordered by a federal judge last June to turn over to the Government any "ill-gotten gains" (at least $60,000 so far) from Decent Interval, his book charging the CIA with botching the evacuation of Saigon. The Government argued that Snepp jeopardized future intelligence operations by violating his secrecy oath; Snepp's defenders saw a discouraging precedent for future "whistle...
...engage in pillow fights and unmentionable other acts. Yet there is nothing sordid about his voyeurism; it seems almost pure. That is because the Lampoon people understand the darkest secret of an American college education: one of the noblest reasons to go is to spend four years studying sex. -Frank Rich...