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...cavorting before advance-screening audiences through most of March. Jones, the director, covered Boston and New York, but he admits that the effort is somewhat allen to the six-man troupe's usual way of operating. Former pictures have been supported by small independent backers, usually musicians, frequently George Harrison; work habits are commensurately informal, with the six writers splitting into teams and then getting together to wrangle over scene order. They tried having a business manager once, but soon gave up the attempt...
...April 1970, according to the file, FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover instructed some offices to watch Lennon and fellow Beatle George Harrison, who were then visiting the U.S. He advised his agents to look "for information indicating they are using narcotics." The bureau's wariness of Lennon mounted in December 1971 when he and Political Radical Jerry Rubin drew a crowd of 15,000 to a University of Michigan rally. Not long after that, the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee suggested in a report to Attorney General John Mitchell that Lennon be deported. "If Lennon's visa is terminated...
Apart from George Bernard Shaw himself, few British stage veterans have done as much to promote the works of the white-bearded comedic master as Rex Harrison. He starred in the 1941 film version of Major Barbara, then played Henry Higgins in My Fair Lady, the musical adaptation of Pygmalion. Now Harrison is again setting the Shavian standard, this time with Diana Rigg, 44, and a thoroughly splendid cast in a production of Heartbreak House, which opened triumphantly at the Haymarket Theater in London's West End last week. For his role as the 88-year-old Captain Shotover...
...Hoover, Volume I) mentioned that Hoover was the first President to have a phone in his office. No, countered Arthur Link editor of the Woodrow Wilson papers, there is a photo showing three phones on Wilson's desk. Frank Freidel, biographer of Franklin Roosevelt, reminded them that Benjamin Harrison said it was beneath the President's dignity to answer a telephone.* The relationship between Reagan and his wife Nancy was absolutely vital in understanding his presidency, said Morris' wife Sylvia, herself a biographer (Edith Kermit Roosevelt). Keep the private letters and notes, she advised. The Reagans...
...many the action looked unseemly. Said Phoenix Lawyer Mark Harrison: "This vote will enhance the mouthpiece image for which many lawyers are known." Next day, as if to make amends, the delegates, by a 2-to-1 margin, embraced a newly explicit requirement: a lawyer must reveal perjury committed by his client in court. "The two votes were as inconsistent as they could possibly be," said Hofstra Law Professor Monroe Freedman, an ethics expert who believes in strict confidentiality. "I think the second vote was, more than anything else, an image vote...