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GIVEN THE WEAKNESSES of plot and characterization, Reynolds almost carries it off--and does carry away the movie. He has just enough cool, and a wonderful light-comic touch. One charge leveled at Ritchie has been that he tried to remake The Philadelphia Story with Too Tall Jones; given the...

Author: By Joseph Dalton, | Title: Sounds Good, B.J. | 12/7/1977 | See Source »

PROFESSIONAL COMEDY is tough. There are thousands of would-be comics, swallowing apples or appearing on the Gong Show, but few of these people have what it takes to become a successful comedian. First, you have to be funny; second, you have to be able to maintain your comic appeal...

Author: By Marc M. Sadowsky, | Title: A Crazy Kind Of Guy | 12/3/1977 | See Source »

The media was at a loss to explain the Fidrych phenomenon, though they attempted to conceal their puzzlement in a blitz of coverage. They asked Fidrych questions, but they werv unsure whether the inchoate answers they received constituted answers. They dug into his past life, talked to his cigar-chomping...

Author: By Chris Agee, | Title: A Bird From The Bush | 11/23/1977 | See Source »

Jimmy Carter's idea of leadership may be founded to a disturbing degree on the impressions he picked up watching the Today show as Nixon walked along the Great Wall of China and dined in the Kremlin. Foreign policy critics of the Administration feel that much of the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY by HUGH SIDEY: Confusing Show Biz with Substance | 10/17/1977 | See Source »

DIED. Kurt Adler, 70, chorus master and conductor at New York's Metropolitan Opera (1945-73); after a long illness; in Butler, N.J. A calm man in a frenetic job, Adler said of his chorus, "They are like any other group of people, as good as you make them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Oct. 3, 1977 | 10/3/1977 | See Source »

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