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...LAST IDOL of the free market Big Mac smashes is that of consumer sovereignty--the freedom to choose from a variety of goods. The burger entourage rolls on, covering over every trace of local color with a uniform circus yellow. Culinary freedom in America is disappearing--what became of the hot dog? And now McDonald's is standardizing the greasy spoon eateries of the world...
...dies again. It is an enviable role that allows the soprano to die more than once, and the limpid-voiced Karen Hunt makes the most of it. But it is the men who dominate Poe, as they do in operas like Otello and Don Carlos by Argento's idol, Verdi. Tenor George Livings (Poe) and Baritone John Brandstetter (Griswold) go at each other with sonorous hatred...
...Between, 1953) and in melodramas of suspense (Night Train to Munich, 1940); of a heart attack; in London. At 29, Reed won the praise of Critic-Author Graham Greene, with whom he was to collaborate on some of his best and most atmospheric films, notably The Fallen Idol (1948) and The Third Man (1949), starring Orson Welles and Joseph Cotton. Sir Carol's first musical, Oliver!, though not a favorite with critics, won an Oscar as the best movie of 1968 and another for him as the best director...
...comedy, very proper and very British, much in the tradition of Oscar Wilde. As in the majority of Coward's plays, the plot is thin and somewhat contrived. The action transpires in the studio of star actor Garry Essendine, revolving around the amorous antics of the forty-ish stage idol and his claque of friends and admirers...
...Bailey may be the matinee idol of Patty Hearst's trial, outthinking, outtalking and very often outclassing U.S. Attorney James L. Browning Jr. But for all his forensic skills, the famed defense attorney has consistently lost important legal disputes to the plodding prosecutor. Last week Bailey once again suffered more defeats than he scored victories as Patty's case moved into its final stages...