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Belmondo's great backlash at the money-grubbing world has palled. We miss the scheming smiles and gleaming winks he projects so well, and even Bujold is having trouble lighting his Don Juan-ish spark. In a very late scene a telegram summons Belmondo to his uncle's deathbed, and he finally receives the chance to take revenge on the skinflint. He forges himself into the old man's will while his uncle helplessly looks on, eating his heart out but too sick to call for help. Yet even here Malle's directorial listlessness--intentional, no doubt, but unendingly strange...
...York is hospitable ground for Moynihan's New Deal-ish stands on unemployment, national health insurance and other social legislation. Buckley was never able to shake his image as a far right winger so wedded to an anti-Government philosophy that he even opposed federal aid to financially strapped New York City in the early stages of its fiscal crisis...
...changing at Today. The set is being redesigned ("Something more comfortable, less formal and sterile," says Producer Friedman), and the show's sometimes clunky script virtually thrown out in favor of ad libbing. Jim Hartz, Walters' intelligent, bland cohost, will hit the road to find Charles Kuralt-ish features. Interviews will be shorter, and a battery of specialists (on science, health, sports, travel, consumer affairs) will be brought in. Says Friedman: "If we can't be spontaneous, we're in trouble...
Four of the five starting members of a Pennsylvania high school state championship basketball team come together at their coach's house to celebrate the 20th anniversary of their greatest victory. They reunite in a grand show of cameraderie and jock-ish affection, but the strains between them and the failures of their individual lives begin to show quickly...
London's Daily Express called her Wood Nymph, but Natalie Wood, consulting her astrological chart (Cancer), said she's a moonchild. Then the Express rolled out its fashion layout, in which Actress Wood, disdaining the nymphic and childish, opted for something very Capone-ish. After that, it was back to rehearsals for a TV special, with Lord Olivier playing Big Daddy and Natalie doing a feline Cat on a Hot Tin Roof...