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...shows some signs of carelessness. Much of it is composed of a series of introductions Greene wrote for an English edition of his works, and the stitching between these set pieces and interpolated transitions is often loose. Little matter. The story is fascinating, whatever Greene says, and spiced with ir resistible anecdotes. Producer Sam Zimbalist once asked Greene to revise the end of a script for a remake of Ben-Hur: "You see, we find a kind of anticlimax after the Crucifixion." There was the tune the author was sued for libel by Shirley Temple; Greene recalls, "I had suggested...
...ir Force One had just landed at Chicago's O'Hare International Airport Saturday night, and the presidential party was en route to a nearby hotel when walkie-talkies in the motorcade crackled to life and the drama began. There was to be a meeting later that night in Deacon's" room. Deacon is the Secret Service code name for President Jimmy Carter...
...week in which President Carter has enjoyed his happiest headlines in months is a good time to discuss his feelings about the press, which might oth erwise seem to be merely sour grapes. The fact is that Carter thinks the press is ir responsible...
...Ir WAS COLD Friday morning, and still pitch black as about 120 students sat waiting and shivering on the steps of University Hall. Two or three out-of-tune guitar players strummed out Woodie Guthrie songs, while several even more out-of-tune voices harmonized them as best they could. Cups of hot chocolate appeared out of somewhere, and people sipped at them, huddled together in the dark and feeling proud, even exuberant over what they had achieved the night before--and for what they would accomplish the following...
DIED. Michéal Mac Liammóir, 78, renowned Irish actor, designer and playwright; of a pulmonary embolism; in Dublin. Blessed with what he called a "godawful gift of gab" and a deep streak of talent, Mac Liammoir designed and appeared in 300 productions at Dublin's Gate, a famed small innovative theater he helped establish in 1928. In the 1960s he popularized the one-man show by giving, on four continents, marvelous solo recitations of passages he had culled from Oscar Wilde, an act he called The Importance of Being Oscar, and from centuries of Irish literature...