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Cambridge is abuzz with the rumor that President Bok will finally give Rodney Dangerfield the respect he insists he deserves, and award the saloon-keeper-Class Day speaker an honorary Doctor of Comedy degree at Thursday's Commencement exercises...
...peasant blouse (coordinated skirt, 35? at a rummage sale) and continues: "People are into getting healthy now. I do yoga every night, so I don't go to movies any more. I won't see this one. I'm trying to get into herbs." Another keeper of the flame is Steve Shliveck, 27, a onetime student radical. "Me, I haven't changed," he says. "I'm a little mellower maybe, and my acne has cleared...
...production, the film is an insult to those who perished and to those who survived. What you have seen on the screen is not what happened there." But Wiesel has written almost obsessively about the Holocaust; he has a kind of morally proprietary passion about it. He is a keeper of the flame, a visionary who sees the past as intensely as a prophet sees the future. Many more Americans seemed to agree with Mayer Fruchter, a New York cab driver who was imprisoned at Buchenwald at the same time as Wiesel. "He is wrong," Fruchter insisted after last week...
...lovers here are David Koerner, a clever, successful, 42-year-old TV producer, and Elizabeth Adderley, a formidably bright and attractive woman whose occupation until recently was wife and keeper to a wealthy drunk. David and Elizabeth are old friends, but when they meet for the first time as free-floating singles, each is edgy and hesitant. Before long the reader sees an additional advantage to the subject of divorce and the curious second adolescence that follows a marital split. For American society in most of its aspects is too fluid and amorphous to sustain a comedy of manners (since...
...close, enthusiasm simply wanes. Nonetheless, "Casablanca" (1942) remains one of the best films to emerge from Hollywood in the age of talkies. This film is a stellar example (oops) of great acting rescuing an otherwise mawkish plot. Bogie crystallizes his persona in "Casablanca" as Rick, the disillusioned, cynical tavern-keeper. Ingrid Bergman was never more beautiful, and Claude Rains, the aforementioned Lorre, and Dooley Wilson head a marvelous cast. Really great films can be rated by how many times one can sit through them and truly enjoy the experience. Although "Casablanca" has become somewhat overworked as everybody's "favorite...