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...scene, of course, is fiction. No portable nuclear bomb awaited triggering; President Gaddafi, for all his Israelophobia, had taped no such doomsday threat. Yet for thousands of French readers the scenario seems icily plausible. The Fifth Horseman is France's hottest bestseller this winter only four weeks after publication. (The book will be published in the U.S. by Simon & Schuster in July.) Co-Authors Larry Collins and Dominique Lapierre (Is Paris Burning?, O Jerusalem) have so convincingly interwoven fact and fiction that the details of civilization's vulnerability to nuclear blackmail appear totally realistic...
...wealth of factual information gives the book the air more of crackling investigative journalism than of fast-moving fiction. Virtually all the international figures in The Fifth Horseman-the important exception being the U.S. President-are identified and living people. Israeli Premier Menachem Begin's daughter Hassia plays the piano in the family's Jerusalem apartment; France's President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing has a secret meeting with his top aides to discuss energy matters...
Another Columbia movie that has done fairly well is The Electric Horseman, a kind of rope opera about an ex-rodeo star's rebellion against commercial exploitation of him and a nag. Though the picture, which cost $18 million including publicity, grossed $14.25 million in its first twelve days, it has not had nearly the drawing power the studio hoped it would, given the luster of its two stars, Robert Redford and Jane Fonda. United Artists' Being There, which stars Peter Sellers as a gardener who may become President, has opened well in Manhattan and Los Angeles theaters...
While Being There takes on television and the older theme of illusion versus reality, Electric Horseman takes aim at the artificiality of American commercialism and the evils therein. Redford plays an ex-rodeo champ who's been roped into selling breakfast cereal as the advertising symbol of a huge conglomerate. The corporation's other symbol is Rising Star, a champion race-horse worth $12 million. When Redford, already unhappy with the life of a travelling pitchman, discovers that his employers have drugged Rising Star with steroids that not only slow him down but make him sterile as well, he takes...
...Electric Horseman and all its simplistic neon sing-flashing will appear someday on TV. Being There may never, thank God, be there...