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...Hecht '80, another staff member, said yesterday she is pleased with the first issue even though it focuses more on political issues, such as nuclear power, than the staff had intended...
Natalya (Tammy Grimes) is a brittle, self-centered wife. Consumed by ennui, she finds her estate-owning hus band Arkadi (Robert Symonds) a total bore. She whiles away the lazy hours with a sophisticated neighbor, Rakitin (Paul Hecht), whose one-man-talk show masks the desire he feels for her. A coltishly appealing young man named Aleksei (Mark Lamos) is brought in to tutor Natalya's son. One look at him and Natalya half falls, half dives into the vortex of love...
...Girl Friday. Of the two Howard Hawks pictures playing around this weekend, this is the equally triumphant. In his man's world, Hawks and his screenwriter Charles Lederer twisted the tension in Hecht and MacArthur's wildman farce "The Front Page" by turning Hildy Johnson into a woman, and one who was trying to excise herself from the male society she had tailored herself into. She can't do it. Hecht and MacArthur's play proved that it was not indestructable when Billy Wilder made it move like a sludge barge. "His Girl Friday" is louder and faster than...
...proved disdain for small change, is by no means the only luxury store to move into the Washington market. Saks Fifth Avenue, Bloomingdale's, Lord & Taylor, all have opened one or more outlets in or near the capital; all have done well enough to tempt established stores such as Hecht's and Woodward & Lothrop to retreat from their old bargain-counter ways. Mercedes-Benz thinks well enough of the area to service it with five agencies...
Moore seemed puzzled by questions about lack of sleep, or working all night revising the script. "There was no smoky hotel room, if that's what you mean," he said. "I've never been in one. I think they went out with Hecht and MacArthur...