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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...otherwise terrible films. Even junk like The Betsy and The Boys from Brazil became memorable in his hands: Who could forget his parody of a Midwestern accent in the former or his rapturous cigarette smoking in the latter? Olivier is such a sly devil that he could make his Oscar acceptance speech, a riotous stream of sheer poppycock, sound as though it were a Shakespearean soliloquy. As TV audiences saw, it was enough to addle Fellow Oscar Winner Jon Voight's brain for the rest of the night...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Pros at Play | 5/7/1979 | See Source »

...Oscar Handlin, Pforzheimer University Professor, Harvey C. Mansfield Jr. '53, professor of Government, and Joseph F. Nye, professor of Government, supported the University's handling of its South Africa-related investments and opposed divestiture...

Author: By Susan C. Faludi and James L. Tyson, S | Title: Faculty Discusses Handling Of S. Africa Investment Policy | 5/2/1979 | See Source »

...Writer Frank Rich describes Woody Allen, the film maker, comic and virtuoso jazz clarinetist he interviewed in Allen's Manhattan apartment for this week's cover story. Says Rich: "Because Woody is involved in none of the side-show glitter of the industry, from TV appearances to Oscar ceremonies, he is different from anyone else I've met in show business." Rich first met Allen while writing a profile of him for Esquire in 1977. Rich's own show business career began at age 13, when, as an aspiring actor in Washington, D.C., "I hung around...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Apr. 30, 1979 | 4/30/1979 | See Source »

...political rebels of the 1960s are no longer without a cause. They have discovered rent control. Behind the overwhelming endorsement that voters of affluent Santa Monica, Calif., gave rent control two weeks ago was the Campaign for Economic Democracy, a group started by Tom Hayden and his Oscar-winning wife, Jane Fonda. They are promoting rent control up and down California. As Fonda told a tenants' group outside San Francisco last week, "We're not trying to screw landlords out of their profits, but we have to find a way for people to get a roof over their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Catching the New York Disease | 4/30/1979 | See Source »

Network. This film grabbed three Oscars for best actor, best actress and best screenplay in 1976, but it wasn't much of a year. The best thing about this movie about the shenanigans behind the evening news at UBS is commentator Peter Finch's letter-perfect imitation of Eric Sevareid. But once you get over your amusement at that stentorian phrasing you find nothing. This film is as sterile as a 30-second clip of Amy Carter walking to her integrated school. Faye Dunaway won her Oscar for Chinatown, not this lemon. Peter Finch is dead...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Just Because You're Paranoid... | 4/26/1979 | See Source »

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