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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Here, Peter Finch, splendid in a cardinal's red robes, plays a humble servant of the Lord who is torn and tantalized when Christina pops up hi the Vatican. Having renounced the crown of Sweden, she announces: "I'm dedicating my maidenhead to God." After all sorts of religious examination and psychological probing, Finch must confront the bitter truth: he himself has taken a powerful interest in what she has offered to the Lord...
...Gulf. The smuggling is organized along Mafia-style lines by gang bosses who frequently live with all the opulence of their screen counterparts. Operating their own fleets of fast, radar-equipped dhows, motorboats and trucks, they bring in gold, jewels, liquor and such luxury items as TV sets and hi-fi equipment for the benefit of a small elite of conspicuous consumers. They spirit out silver, Hindi movies (frequently financed by smugglers), which are much admired in the Middle East and South Africa, and other Indian goods...
...season's series, only one priceless ingredient is missing-her longtime Minneapolis neighbor, Rhoda Morgenstern. For four years Valerie Harper impersonated that adamantime Jewish waif and grew more skilled with each show. This year, hi the best show-business tradition, she was strong enough to spin off to her own production. Her new series has relocated her in Manhattan, where Rhoda has actively searched for an apartment, a job and a man-and miraculously found all three. She has also found a supporting cast that rivals Mary's: Harold Gould (Pop), who helped sharpen The Sting; Nancy Walker...
...hated living hi New York again," says Tinker. "I didn't stay a year and asked them to let me out of my contract." In the meantime, his wife tried Broadway-and found fiasco...
...boater, spats, walking stick, wire-rimmed pince-nez, and suits copied from turn-of-the-century magazine illustrations, he uses a Gladstonian vocabulary, reserving for his strongest expletives such terms as "Oh perdition!" and "Balderdash!" He spurns television, the telephone, central heating, refrigeration, indoor plumbing and all literature published hi the past 60 years. Thoroughly true to his lifestyle, he supports himself by repairing player pianos, Victrolas, nickelodeons, and other fin de siecle artifacts, drawing customers from all over the state...