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Nicholson passed along with it, not out of sight, as happened with many of his fraternity, but on to other things. He worked into the mainstream that he had been trying to divert, and started running with the high rollers. He now counts as two of his buddies Paramount Production Chief Robert Evans and Warren Beatty, his co-star in Fortune. Nicholson, along with his real gifts, has always had a canny ability to move with the heat. He has done it so well that now he is the heat...
...have done some research on the issue, particularly with reference to ABA standards relating to the defense function and the code of professional responsibility; according to those authorities an attorney is required to press all legally available points, his client's desires in the matters are paramount, his professional opinion, his own professional opinion of the merits of the point that is raised is irrelevant, and the only test is, indeed, even if the rule that is argued for is "unwarranted under existing law" as long as it is supportable by a good faith argument the attorney is required...
...rest of the world confirms the rarity of democratic leadership. Given the vastly diverse needs, traditions and social assumptions of the world's nations, it is extremely risky to venture any cultural generalizations. But some patterns seem evident nonetheless. In Black Africa, where the idea of a powerful paramount chief was deeply ingrained long before
...Threepenny Opera is often cited for its lyrical and musical inventiveness, qualities which the Loeb production brings to the fore. But the lasting power of the play lies in the persistence of the problems which were paramount to Brecht's political concerns--the perversion of human character by poverty and exploitation, the evils of monied power, and the shallowness of middle class virtue in capitalist society. The themes of his musical are broad, stark, and important--and all the more forceful for the Repertory's outstanding performance...
Other producers have put their millions into reviving the time-honored disaster-film-subcategory-pestilence. In addition to Phase IV, the saga of the marching ants, Paramount will present The Haephestus Plague, a double whammy in which another earthquake disgorges thousands of carbon-munching giant cockroaches from the bowels of the earth. "We are breeding and training real South American bugs," says Producer William Castle. Reminded, perhaps, of the "feelies" of Huxley's Brave New World-in which audiences were electronically tuned in to experience the physical impact of every love scene and head-bonking shown on the screen...