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...EITHER the plot or the acting provide the continuity that the cinematography lacks. The peek-a-boo piece in Playboy led us to believe that Violet's mother, Hattie (Susan Sarandon) would be a reluctant and ambitious hooker who dreamed of getting out. But Sarandon the ruthlessness to flesh out that theme. She simply ups and weds one of her johns in the middle of the movie--leaving Violet being and leaving us wondering why she did it, and where we missed something. Less self-explanatory still is David Carradine's portrayal of the photographer-suitor, Bellocq. When he first...

Author: By Mark T. Whitaker, | Title: Malle a la Coquette | 4/24/1978 | See Source »

...child's game of pretend is over. A major Arab leader has had the courage to publicly accept what is: Israel exists. The rays of peace peek through a stormy sky. Why has it taken so long...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 19, 1977 | 12/19/1977 | See Source »

...have the right to peek into the laboratories and see what those wild-eyes professors are doing," Vellucci said...

Author: By Pamela R. Saunders, | Title: 'Didn't Come for Votes,' Vellucci States at Union | 10/27/1977 | See Source »

Except for an understandable overflow of sentiment, the final episode of Upstairs, Downstairs, PBS's blue-chip 'British import, was of a piece with its predecessors. There was the titillating peek into the ways of conspicuous consumption: among other extravagances, the recipe for Georgina's four-tiered wedding cake calls for 16 pounds of currants. There was the history bulletin: Hudson snaps shut his newspaper (the time is 1930) and announces that two million Englishmen are unemployed. There was the subtle reminder that no servant is a heroine to her mistress: in an unusual fit of garrulity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Goodbye to All That | 5/9/1977 | See Source »

...summer. While on the road, she works each night between midnight and 4 a.m. on her third book-and first novel. On March 12 CBS will air her newest TV special, titled Where Do We Go from Here? (10 p.m. E.S.T.), an hour show that she describes as "a peek into the future of entertainment." A peek at MacLaine's future shows Shirley and Actress Anne Bancroft appearing this fall in The Turning Point, a movie about former ballet mates who reunite after 20 years. Says Shirley: "If I could only do one thing at a time, it would...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Shirley MacLaine on the Move | 3/7/1977 | See Source »

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