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...sudden success as a playwright. His first effort, Entertaining Mr. Shane, was a homosexual, black comedy (boy meets girl, boy bludgeons girl's father, boy runs off with girl's brother) which London critics voted the best play of 1964. Orton's next plays, Loot and Crimes of Passion, were just as black and just about as successful. Instead of spending his days with Halliwell, Orton became caught up in a social whirl of producers, directors and stars. Halliwell was shattered. He tried to become a painter, but got nowhere. He chain-smoked hashish, then tried eating...
Sharing the Loot. Some residents of Long Beach find the islands so effective that they would like to see them made a permanent addition to the harbor. At night, the "apartment buildings" are illuminated, providing an appealing vista along the coast. Eventually, each island will be decorated with shrubbery, artificial 30-foot waterfalls and clusters of large abstract sculptures...
...subdue his larcenous spirit. Finally, he has everything: riches, an elegant home and the beautiful cousin, who rejoins him to share his life. He still cannot quit. In the camera's last view he has completed his heist, and is sitting on a train with satchels full of loot. Before the viewer's eyes he slips from youth to middle age, a pathetic pariah whose luxurious tastes cannot disguise his barren obsession...
...some 2,000 Congolese stormed and sacked two floors of the Belgian embassy, invaded an adjacent apartment building and mauled an American Army sergeant and his wife who were trapped inside. Then it moved on to hurl rocks at the French cultural center and the American and British embassies, loot shops and set fire to cars along the way. Before Mobutu decided that it was time for him to ask the rioters to go home, they had torn down a 35-ft.-high bronze statue of Belgium's King Albert I that had been a city landmark for years...
...help of local police, who played the abductors. Said the program announcer: "Apathy toward crime is astounding." As further proof, ITV showed some other crimes staged before a public that did not want to get involved. In a jewel robbery, the "thieves" ran from the store with their loot in plain view, carrying an injured man whom they threw in the trunk of the getaway car. Again, no one made a move to interfere and no one noted the license plate. Just as impassively, onlookers looked on as a pair of "robbers" smashed a store window and started looting. Only...