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...good that I don't know whether I should try more films." The remark, of course, is for effect. He would, if he could, mortgage Margaret's Christopher Wren-designed palace for a chance to do a feature film like that cinematographic tour de force, Elvira Madigan. His next project, though, will still be "on the fringes of documentary." He is dickering about it with CBS, to which he feels indebted for getting him into film. Though the BBC was outraged at being passed over, Lord Snowdon says: "It was important that I should be asked...
Campaign Begun. The indictments incensed Alameda County Sheriff Frank Madigan. While admitting that "things got out of hand," he described the investigations and charges of his men as "one of the sickest government operations that I have ever seen." A hardline law-and-order advocate, Madigan believes that his own recommendations for disciplining ten of his men-ranging from demotions to 15-day suspensions without pay-were enough. He claims that the indictments will have a "profound effect" on law enforcement across the country, adding: "No one sends for us until things are out of hand and force is necessary...
...Madigan and his allies blame their troubles on U.S. Attorney Cecil Poole, 55, who obtained the indictments from the grand jury on his last day in office. A black and a Democratic appointee, Poole had served in Northern California since 1961 and has twice been blocked by politics from ascending to the federal bench. The last occasion was when his appointment by Lyndon Johnson was withdrawn after the Republicans took office. He was recently appointed a professor at Berkeley's law school, and Madigan hints that the indictments were designed to mollify his liberal new associates at the university...
...away. Today they bring it down. Nostalgia and its bastard cousin, camp, have transformed debris into antiques, and trivia into gold. In the Hollywood attic, two losers have been moldering for over a year, waiting for a miracle that would render them profitable. The leftovers are Fearless Frank and Madigan's Millions, and the miracle is Midnight Cowboy, which reinforced the reputation of Dustin Hoffman and elevated Jon Voight from a cipher into a star with a six-figure salary. This month American International Pictures, with the calculation of a jeweler digging out his stock of Mickey Mouse watches...
...Hoffman, he was airlifted from off-Broadway to Rome for Madigan's Millions and given a fast $5,000 for his first film role as a fumbling, bumbling G-man. Today he could light his cigars with bills of that size-and may be tempted to put his screen debut to the same use. At first glance, he can hardly be blamed. The movie's garish color and lighting would give an aspirin a headache, and its flubbed, dubbed screenplay is sheer, towering Babel. Yet here and there are some amusing hints of the ludicrous student who became...