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...taken you or for how long or, above all, why. But Irish writer Frank McGuinness finds a trove of snarky pub wit and schoolboy antics in SOMEONE WHO'LL WATCH OVER ME, which last week moved from London to Broadway with its deft West End cast -- Alec McCowen as a prissy English teacher, Stephen Rea as a dissolute Irish journalist and James McDaniel as a tightly wound American doctor. The roles recall the contrived ethnic jumble of old war movies. McDaniel, the most touchingly real, most underscores this falsity...
...Cannes casino at a complex video game (a modern update of a baccarat table); a direct confrontation over Largo's innocent girlfriend Domino (Kim Basinger); and finally the obligatory showdown. The victory for the old days--for viewers and characters alike--is best summed up by "Q" (Alec McCowen), Bond's chief gadget provider. "The bureaucrats are now running the place; you can't do anything without a computer okaying it. Everything's by the book," he laments to Connery. "Now that you're back, I hope we're going to have some gratuitous sex and violence...
Members of the West Point community this week also criticized the Harvard Band's antics. Lt. Col. Ronald McCowen, director of the West Point band, said. "I'm afraid that there's a little thing called common sense, courtesy and manners which were forgotten [when the Band performed]. There are so many good things which can be done by a band. All they are doing is destroying a vital part of the American music program...
...Observer, but the New Statesman charged "subversive admiration for Hitler"). The controversy grew last month when Playwright Christopher Hampton presented a stage version now playing at London's Mermaid theater, that Steiner thought was "too faithful" to his book. That fidelity made the aging Hitler, played by Alec McCowen, a rigid, then suddenly raucous figure, declaiming a justification of his past. "It is a tour de force ... to freeze the blood," said the Daily Mail. "A dramatic fraud," claimed the Financial Times. U.S. publication of the novel, which is due on April 30, the anniversary of Hitler...
...Today during the second hour, Dr. Art Ulene may demonstrate the Heimlich maneuver, which is intended to save a choking victim. Critic Gene Shalit may interview Actor Alec McCowen. Jane Pauley, Brokaw's sidekick, may talk to Actresses Valerie Harper and Esther Rolle...