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...that movies like Three Days of the Condor are not really worth making at all is a thought that occurs to no one. Neither Redford, Director Sydney Pollack (The Way We Were) nor any of the assortment of assembled co-stars (Faye Dunaway, Cliff Robertson, Max von Sydow, John Houseman) can make material like this better than passable. No one could, and you wonder why anyone bothers. Redford and all his co-stars and all the elaborate production details are aimless embellishment, like putting neon lighting around a void...
...regular New York stopover for a host of luminaries from the world of art, music, film and fiction, who, along with its dozens of regular residents, prefer the funky, faded chic of the Chelsea to more contemporary quarters uptown. Perennial Chelsea guests include the entire Fonda clan, Director John Houseman and Actors Al Pacino and Timothy Bottoms. Boasts the hotel's managing director, Stanley Bard: "It is the greatest assemblage of creative people under one roof in the world...
...Glenda Jackson-were also safe and sane. He is a popular local boy; she is a remote great lady winning her second Oscar in three years. Youth and age were equally served by the selections of ten-year-old Tatum O'Neal and 71-year-old John Houseman, sometime producer, as supporting actress and actor of the year...
...With supervisors filling in for striking staffers, United Press International last week was tricked into a textbook journalistic boner. Finding a press release on Senator Edward Kennedy's letterhead in the U.P.I. Senate press-gallery box, Marty Houseman, normally U.P.I.'s bureau manager in Puerto Rico, rapped out a story based on the release's startling contents: Kennedy had told a visiting group of high school students that he was reconsidering his noncommittal stance on the Democratic nomination for the presidency in 1976. As word of the U.P.I, "exclusive" spread, Kennedy and his office staff were besieged...
...cool terror that can be instilled by an academic skilled in psychological warfare. His Ivy League Olympian is Kingsfield, a professor of contract law who passes along scholarship with finely tempered disdain. In an original bit of casting, Kingsfield is played by Veteran Theater and Film Producer John Houseman. It is a forbidding, superb performance, catching not only the coldness of such a man but the patrician crustiness that conceals deep and raging contempt...