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...Hollywood marriage, which in fact was just what it had been. The principals were the top executives at Transamerica, the San Francisco-based insurance-manufacturing-entertainment conglomerate, and the management of its United Artists subsidiary. With Oscar-winning smashes like Rocky and One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, United Artists is Hollywood's most successful film producer. But after closing the books on their best year ever, U.A.'s entire brain trust, including Chairman Arthur Krim and President Eric Pleskow, up and quit...
Probably the best known Czech director is Milos Forman (One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest), and Forman's Black Peter will be on a double bill with a film called Intimate Lighting beginning at 7:30 Saturday night. But Forman is probably not even the best of the Czech New Wave directors. The films are all almost topheavy with black humor--some are political allegories, but don't beat you over the head with it. The Czech film industry began to burdgeon in the early '60s under Dubcek and was basically crushed when the Soviet tanks rolled into Prague...
Female birds nest together...
...deserts him. In Vienna two years ago, he gave a radically nontraditional performance of that proud Viennese national resource, Die Fledermaus. It was almost predictable that a Russian might fail to exploit the sassy, lighthearted flavor of the classic, and sure enough, Rostropovich's overloaded Bat crashlanded into a nest of snapping critics, who almost declared war on the Soviet Union. Wrote the International Herald Tribune's David Stevens in one of the more merciful reviews: "A Slavic sour cream lay over the proceedings in place of Viennese schlag." In defense, Slava argued that he could easily have conducted...
...Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. In Science Center B, Friday and Saturday...