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...emotions-panic, depression and obsequiousness; the general hysteria surrounding the weekly production of a program that is broadcast live, without benefit of retakes. To guide him through all this in more or less upright condition, Swann is placed in the hands of a junior writer named Benjy Stone (Mark Linn-Baker) who is also a senior admirer of Swann's dashing screen image. They make an odd, but affecting couple: Swann teaching the boy something about the joys of irresponsibility, Benjy showing the star something of the pleasures of responsibility...
...Mark Linn-Baker), whom McAnuff apparently fantasizes as clones of Waiting for Godot's Estragon and Vladimir. Stage left features the ornate living quarters of the Red Dragon, Manfred Von Richthofen (John Vickery), who is sometimes joined by his adjutant (Jeffrey Jones) and a swishy fellow pilot in the Flying Circus named Hermann Goering (Bob Gunton...
...Palestinians on the occupied West Bank. As he told a Labor Party meeting in Tel Aviv last week: "When I was Minister of Defense [1974-77], I made sure that Israeli soldiers in the West Bank kept the safety catches of their weapons on." To woo Peretz and Linn, Peres offered them safe Labor seats in the next election. He also hoped to benefit from the fact that the three-member ultranationalist Tehiya Party was wavering in its support for the Likud...
Even by the rowdy standards of Knesset debates, last week's performance was noteworthy for its invective. As soon as Peres took the stand to deliver his 45-minute critique of the government, Likud deputies began charging that he had "bought" Peretz and Linn. Retorted Peres: "I bought no one. You, the Likud, weren't true to your own platform. Linn and Peretz acted with integrity." When Peres tried to resume, Likud Deputy Pinhas Goldstein shouted: "Will someone tell me where I can get some pills for nausea?" To that, Labor's Dov Ben-Meir shot back...
Begin, who had remained outside the chamber throughout most of Peres' speech, brought the audience one of its few moments of laughter with a pantomime suggesting how Peres and Peretz had conducted their deal above, and below, the table. To Peretz and Linn, however, it was no laughing matter. Later, both men received telephone threats, and Linn was assigned a police guard...