Word: mastermind
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...this mass of undercurrents. Instead they have supplied a lot of witty, if often extraneous numbers, which in turn serve as vehicles for law school puns rather than conveyors for much-needed expositions. Perhaps if the writers had let the heroine of the play explain how she was the mastermind behind all the plotting then Shake A Legacy would have held together. But they didn't. And she didn't. And we are left with a very funny production that goes nowhere...
...unhappy marriage, and divorce seemed the only way out for Clifford and Edith Irving, mastermind and accomplice respectively of the phony Howard Hughes biography caper. But when they emerged from prison after being separated for nearly two years, they were understandably reluctant to get involved in yet another legal process. Last month Clifford, 44, returned to Ibiza, the Mediterranean island where he used to live, to spend Christmas with his wife and their two sons, Nedsky, 6, and Barney, 4. Irving was due back in Manhattan last week, where he is still trying to sell his phony Hughes book...
...reporter only half facetiously: "Could you hear the prison doors clanking shut?" Nonetheless, the defense lawyer, John J. Wilson, was no less impassioned in attacking the Government's chief witnesses, Jeb Stuart Magruder and John Dean. Wilson described Magruder as a "professional liar" and Dean as a "mastermind of chicanery, of monkey business, of flouting the law, of having no conscience." The defense attorney dismissed the White House tapes as having recorded nothing worse than the sort of talk that takes place in any family at times of "trouble ... or tragedy." Said he: "I'm telling you about...
...Steiger has plaudits aplenty for the co-star and the director of his newest film, now being completed in Saint-Tropez, France. The movie, tentatively entitled Damned Innocents, features Steiger as an aging husband and Romy Schneider as his wandering-eyed wife, and is directed by New Wave Mastermind Claude Chabrol. Says Steiger of Chabrol: "He understands the necessity of allowing his actors artistic freedom. There isn't that much money to be made, and we have to use all the talent there is." Which, presumably, includes Schneider. "Working with her makes me realize how ignorant I am," concedes...
There are no lovably honorable hoods wielding their gats for Michael, no warm family reunions or mutual aid meetings. His major enemy is a Meyer Lansky-modeled criminal mastermind, shrewdly played by Actors Studio Director Lee Strasberg (see box). As Michael plots his careful, lethal moves, the recurring, unforgettable image is of his eyes growing colder, until they finally go dead to the horrors around him. Those eyes somehow manage to dominate a film that is also rich in action. Not once does Pacino overtly ask for the audience's sympathy, but through a disciplined, suggestive performance he dominates...