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Even that unflappable knight of the Jedi, Obi-Wan Kenobi?otherwise known as Sir Alec Guinness?is amazed and a little perplexed by the Star Wars phenomenon. People who have seen the film in the U.S. are making him a cult figure, he says, and reminding him of his duties as the last of a great line of warriors:"It's a fun movie, but some spooky stuff has crept in. People are taking it too seriously, and I wouldn't encourage that altogether." Adds the Catholic convert: "I'm an alleged Christian, so to that extent...
...Shakespeare's work, the fallen knight Falstaff, a wonderful scoundrel of a man, tends to dominate the play, by the force of his wit if not by his sheer weight. Brilliantly played by Paul Redmond, Falstaff far outshines all the other roles in the show. In Redmond's hands, Falstaff is an incorrigible bundle of contradictions. Lusting after the role of moralizer, he pulls his bulging body up underneath him, only to find that a stamping foot or a waving hand takes on a life of its own. Redmond shows Falstaff as a weak old man lying about brave exploits...
...junior and senior years at Fordham, the Rams were invited to the post-season NIT tournament, the showcase of New York basketball. Even before his collegiate days he met Willis Reed, Bobby Knight, Kevin Loughery, and New York Knicks general manager Eddie Donovan at Donohue's summer clinic, not to mention Jabbar...
...every chain publisher is so modest in his opinions-or, if you prefer, so content to shirk his editorial responsibility. John S. Knight, 83, has exercised self-restraint in inflicting his decided views on the 34-paper Knight-Ridder chain, which includes such fine dailies as the Miami Herald, the Philadelphia Inquirer and the Detroit Free Press. Knight, an Eisenhower conservative and friend of Nixon's, lost a son in World War II. From Dien Bien Phu on, he warned against American involvement in Southeast Asia, and when the U.S. did get involved, he continued to oppose...
...exercise of local editorial autonomy results in political schizophrenia-some papers Republican, others Democratic-which the chains all defend as wholesome diversity rather than cynical moneymaking indifference at headquarters. In the 1976 election, one of Knight-Ridder's Southern papers endorsed Gerald Ford instead of Southerner Jimmy Carter, while the Detroit Free Press in Ford's home state chose Carter. On the Gannett papers-"without any guidance at all from corporate headquarters," says Neuharth-endorsements went about 60% Ford, 40% Carter. The well-managed, publicly owned Gannett papers have been described not too unfairly by a critic...