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Actress Jenny Agutter has a British passport, a bungalow in Hollywood and a career she calls "mid-Atlantic": she has starred both in English films and with Michael York in last year's Hollywood science-fiction fantasy Logan's Run. Now comes Equus, Sidney Lumet's film of the long-running Broadway psychodrama. Jenny, 24, plays a pert stablehand who tries to seduce the troubled young patient of Psychiatrist Martin Dysart (Richard Burton). In the film, as on Broadway, that scene is played au naturel, which doesn't bother Jenny, since she considers it "necessary...
...Angeles, network executives watching a screening of the movie were on the edge of their seats, almost clawing at the armrests with indignation. In New York City, the film was a three-martini lunch topic along Sixth Avenue -"Network Row"-and NBC angrily barred Director Sidney Lumet from a screening of one of its own TV movies. "It's a piece of crap," huffed an NBC vice president. "It had nothing to do with our business." ABC's Barbara Walters was more delicate. She said that while the movie was entertaining, she was afraid audiences would think...
Directed by SIDNEY LUMET Screenplay by PADDY CHAYEFSKY...
...gourmet treats marks the highlight of Murder on the Orient Express. Like the excesses of first-class fanfare, this vehicle runs mostly on show. Not to knock it: anyone whose gone through a Rod McKuenesque crush on trains, for instance, will drool over the authentic Express that director Sidney Lumet takes across the Alps. But the glamorous actors are obviously doing their bits and picking up their payroll; only Venessa Redgrave stands out for her gigly working girl and widow Lauren Bacall for her embarrassing bitchiness. The experience finishes like a meal of all that luscious food: the idea...
...berg's Universal Studio, where action and disaster epics (Earthquake, Midway and Airport) are house specialties, Producer-Director George Roy Hill is casting Rescue at Entebbe. Over at Paramount, Paddy Chayefsky has been signed to write the script for 90 Minutes at Entebbe, to be directed by Sidney Lumet. Independent Producer Elliott Kastner, meanwhile, is making Assault on Entebbe by revising a script he already had about an Arab-Israeli confrontation. Says a Kastner staffer: "We're ahead and can have the first picture out." But not if 20th Century-Fox rushes into production with its made...