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Since the coin heist last year, security precautions at the Fogg have been tightened and the old director, Daniel J. Robbins--whom many blamed for loose security that permitted the coin theft to occur--has retired...
...heist likely to hurt the Chelsea's zany reputation? Hardly, say its most seasoned guests, who for years have known how to blink at outlandish goings-on at the Chelsea. "The incident just gives the place a little pep," observed Composer George Kleinsinger, a 17-year resident. "The Chelsea is still a very personal place, and I like it for that," says Playwright Miller, who lived there from 1965 to 1972. "It has big, quiet rooms. Some of them," he adds with an indulgent smile, "need painting, of course...
Abetted by Candice Bergen, as a thrill-seeking but good-natured deb, they determine to crack the uncrackable safe. At this point, what looked like just another spoofy heist picture takes on a wayward comic life that is about as refreshing as any adventure movie around these days. The grand plan calls for the orchestration of such oddly diverse elements as hand-painted cockroaches, an enormous piece of chocolate cake and a giant vacuum cleaner. Better still, it requires Grodin to convert himself from a chronically depressed victim into a man of action. That development-as his voice-over narration...
George C. Scott, perhaps hoping that no one will notice him, disinterestedly portrays a heist artist named Walter Upjohn Ballantine, who, in the words of an admirer, is the possessor of "the most spectacular rap sheet" in the FBI'S files. Among Ballantine's most highly regarded credits are shanghaiing an oil tanker in mid-ocean and stealing a million dollars in nickels from the U.S. mint. A crony named Al G. Karp, who looks like a softball that sweats, springs him from the pen to enlist his help on a new scheme: to break a bank called...
...land, many of the old, abandoned monuments to America's past are welcoming visitors as they never did before. There are the august red brick firehouses, the rococo waterworks, the splendiferous banks with marble floors and tellers' grilles that could have come from a Jimmy Cagney heist flick, abandoned churches raised with prayer and artistry, majestic railroad stations, many designed by the finest architects in the U.S. They have been re-antiquated and reinserted into American life with love and ambience-and with food and wine. The fact is that hundreds of classic buildings throughout the U.S. have...