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Nowadays Billy Dee is firmly tied with a Gordyan knot-a guaranteed annual income of $200,000 whether he works or not, plus percentages of his films. A loner who lives quietly in a modest three-bedroom house in Laurel Canyon with his Japanese-American wife Teruko and three children, Williams spends free time meditating, sketching, writing poetry and working out daily in a gym. His life-style more closely resembles that of such famed loners as Robert Redford and Paul Newman than that of Billy Dee's gregarious idol Clark Gable. "I am still searching," says Williams seriously...
...Sting. Harry (James Caan) and Walter (Elliott Gould) are bumptious turn-of-the-century vaudevillians with more talent for stealing the customers' wallets than for stealing the show. Offstage they drink out of the finger bowls at posh restaurants, swat each other with their hats a la Laurel and Hardy and cause everything they touch to blow up in their faces, from a bottle of champagne to a vial of nitroglycerin. "They're not oafs," someone says of them. "They would require practice to become oafs...
...surged down Broad Way to wreak vengeance on the statue. Having drunk plenty of rum and ale, the crowd first pulled the royal horse from its pedestal, then hacked off the King's head, fired a musket shot into it, pounded away the nose and pried off the laurel wreath. With fife and drums playing The Rogue's March, the crowd carried off the mangled head, which eventually disappeared. The carcass is to be cut up and shipped to Connecticut, where patriotic women plan to melt the lead down into ammunition. Estimated result: more than 42,000 bullets...
...General (Keaton) and The Music Box (Laurel and Hardy), Saturday...
...only vulgar observation and surprisingly, they all slip by inoffensively. But Peter Fletcher's version of the naive cop doesn't jibe with his cohort's naturalness. His lithe, eager responses to the fat cop are always a little too slow in coming--his resemblance to an inept Stan Laurel fails to complement Suchecki's realistic performance...