Word: handyman
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Even for the most liberated of women, a man sometimes comes in handy. Actress Jane Fonda's handyman last week was Lawyer-Author Mark Lane (Rush to Judgment), who flew from New York to Cleveland to spring Jane from jail. Charged with importing some 2,000 tranquilizers and pep pills from Canada and roughing up a cop and a customs agent to boot, Jane, 32, said of her overnight stay in stir: "When you think that the best people in this country are now in jail, I didn't mind it at all." For Dewi Sukarno, 30, widow...
...also lends his refined eye to Britain's Council of Industrial Design. It was Snowdon who, in a speech to the nation's souvenir manufacturers, condemned most of their output as "low British rubbish." A trained architect (though he flunked his Cambridge exams) and a wizard handyman, Snowdon designed the impressive new aviary at the London Zoo and an improved motorized wheelchair. In sum, he calculates that he spends 80% of his life being Antony Armstrong-Jones and 20% being Lord Snowdon...
...Midwestern suburb. Twelve Ravens is that most difficult of storytellers' tricks, on-again, off-again realism. Night falls, and the mamas and papas of the bored middle class race to the town's hill like nude nymphs and satyrs to worship their resident Mephistopheles, Gypsy, the neighborhood handyman...
...named Kilgannon (James Caan) who turns out to be a retarded college-football player with a plate in his head. He has been promised a job by the father of an old college girl friend, but the girl's family greets him with ridicule. Another job as a handyman on a reptile farm falls through when Kilgannon becomes so frightened of losing Natalie that he starts to let the animals out of their cages. He even interrupts Natalie's assignation with a Nebraska motorcycle cop (Robert Duvall), provoking an improbable denouement that obviously wanted to say something about...
...Cosa Nostra's history-eventually retired to Tucson, Ariz., where, amid his fig and orange trees, he now lives modestly, reflecting on his days of power and plotting his comeback. His life is not entirely normal, however. The FBI tried, unsuccessfully, to recruit his confidant and all-round handyman, David Hill, 21, as an informer. Once a bomb landed in Bonanno's backyard. He thinks that an FBI agent may have prompted two young thugs to throw the bomb and start a fight between Bonanno and another mobster-a sequel to the "Banana War" that followed his downfall...