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Died. Hampton Hawes, 48, jazz pianist and composer (All Night Session); of a brain hemorrhage; in Los Angeles. An effervescent, percussive keyboard stylist inspired by the bop artist Bud Powell, Hawes performed with many of the jazz greats, including Charlie Parker, Dexter Gordon and Jimmy Garrison. Although Hawes became addicted to heroin during the 1950s, he kicked the habit and wrote about both his addiction and his music in his autobiography, Raise...
Died. Lou Gordon, 60, flamboyant Detroit television commentator whose questioning brought Governor George Romney's response that he had been "brainwashed" while visiting Viet Nam and led to his withdrawal from the 1968 Republican presidential race; of an apparent heart attack; in Bloomfield Hills, Mich. Although reviled by some for his personal abrasiveness, Gordon gained renown for his exposes of local corruption...
Director George Lucas has come out with a film that has "Billion Dollar Baby" stamped all over it. Star Wars is a rousing crowdpleaser, a reaffirmation that the good guys still win some of the time, and an affectionate needle at the legendary Flash Gordon movies of yesteryear all wrapped into one very slick package. And while devotees of the sci-fi movie genre may not take too kindly to the implicit parody of their chosen cult contained in Lucas' film, the dazzling special effects of Star Wars by themselves should prove sufficient to eclipse any lingering qualms they might...
...hackneyed dialogue and other familiar staples in Star Wars will impress itself on the moviegoer from the very beginning. Much of the national media has played up the Flash Gordon comic book angle in the last two weeks, at the expense of toning down some of the other classic themes and frameworks that Lucas weaves into the film's texture. In many ways, Star Wars can be approached as a competent Western set sometime in the quite distant future. Go down the checklist of a classic Western's ingredients, and few items will be missing in the Lucas recipe: bounty...
...universe of plenty-as audiences can discover beginning this week in Star Wars, a grand and glorious film that may well be the smash hit of 1977, and certainly is the best movie of the year so far. Star Wars is a combination of Flash Gordon, The Wizard of Oz, the Errol Flynn swashbucklers of the '30s and '40s and almost every western ever screened-not to mention the Hardy...