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Ticket to Heaven--Thursday at 2, 4, 6, 8 and 10 p.m.; Orson Welles Cinemas...
...Harder They Come and Ladies and Gentlemen, The Rolling Stones--Friday and Saturday at 12:10 a.m.; with Richard Pryor Live in Concert at 12:15 a.m.; Orson Welles Cinemas
...sure there is a 'fat list,' perhaps even written down, that producers consult. You like to think you're hired strictly for your abilities, but I know my size has gotten me jobs." Among actors who might be on any producer's list: Orson Welles, an epic creator who is known to the television generation as the butt of Johnny Carson's fat jokes; William Conrad, TV's Nero Wolfe; Raymond Burr, old Ironside; and Burt Young, the Gibraltar of Rocky. Perhaps the most stereotyped of all is Victor Buono. Fat from childhood, Buono...
PREDICTION: I Sent A Letter to My Love will show at the Orson Welles for months. It is that type of film--unambitious, unchallenging, very pretty and quite small. Though it succeeds nicely, it puts on few airs, simply because it has no cause to. Designed as a vehicle for Simone Signoret (best known recently for Madame Rosa); this is the story of an aging spinster who lives with, and cares for, her wheelchair-bound brother, Gilles. Grouchy, though affectionate toward each other, their life seems as cold and sterile as the craggy Brittany coastline that Gilles (Jean Rochefort) perpetually...
...dialectic, and wherever Beaumarchais' introduces a didactic speech. Epstein finds ways for his characters to deliver it naturally. Each character, in turn--except the Count--gets to spout off about his oppression; and those who believe women's issues are a 20th-century invention will note that Marceline (Barbara Orson), who starts the play as Figaro's nemesis, offers a sympathetic monologue that we can only call feminist...