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BERT RIGBY, YOU'RE A FOOL. Robert Lindsay (the London-Broadway star of Me and My Girl) plays the lead in Carl Reiner's funny fable about an English coal miner's search for celebrity. Anne Bancroft is glorious as a randy Hollywood princess whom Lindsay meets on the potholed road to stardom...
This weekend the Harvard Film Archive at the Carpenter Center celebrates the world of Romanian film with a two-part series honoring recent Romanian film makers. On Friday, Jacob, directed by Mircea Daneliuc, presents the stroy of a gold miner in Transylvania. Jacob was shown at the New York Film Festival this year and received international acclaim. It will be shown at 7 p.m. and again on Saturday...
...Carl Reiner's funny fable about an English coal miner's search for fame and fortune, Bert suffers this affliction as he sings and dances Isn't It Romantic? in an amateur-night competition. Since the attempt to cope with it and finish his number is both hilarious and heartwarming, Bert wins the contest. Next he is hired by the show's corrupt promoter to tour as a perpetual competitor, getting paid only if he beats the authentic contestants. This he can do only by faking the bloody nose night after night...
...acquisition followed a long, hard battle and came in the wake of last year's attempt to take over another U.S. publisher, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich. William Jovanovich restructured the company to thwart Maxwell's anticipated $2 billion bid. "Jovanovich killed the company. He's a dumb Croat coal miner. Had I met him, I would have told him so," Maxwell snarls with characteristic restraint. Some American publishers insist that he overpaid by as much as $1 billion for Macmillan. Not so, says Maxwell. "Information is growing at 20% a year," he explains in patient, professorial tones. "Communications is where...
...waiting for a train on a platform. Loretta Lynn and Crystal Gayle and Peggy Sue appear, dressed in tall spike heels, skintight pedal pushers and Bush T shirts. On the other side of the factory, for the thousandth time that day, the sisters introduce Bush by singing Coal Miner's Daughter, Amazing Grace, The Man from Galilee, and I Saw the Light. The crowds all day, surprised to find someone really famous among them, give the singers squeals of delight and that suddenly sharp liveliness of the eyes, the predatory gladness, that announces recognition of a celebrity. Loretta Lynn...