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Willy Russell's Rita was a risky choice for Steppenwolf and the two performers, Austin Pendleton and Laurie Metcalf: audiences were likely to have vivid memories of the 1983 film that won Oscar nominations for Michael Caine and Julie Walters as a drunken, shambling university teacher and his bright but unschooled adult-education pupil. But the troupe has put its own stamp on the show, particularly in Metcalf's performance, which persuasively blends resurgent hope and hints of fiercely suppressed desperation. The romance that dominated the film is played down, and the title character emerges as no winsome waif...
...your taste in robots runs toward the apolitical comedy of Artoo Detoo, then Director John Badham's efficient realization of a script by S.S. Wilson and Brent Maddock may strike you as entirely too preachy keen. Ally Sheedy and Steve Guttenberg are the lovers matched by the machine; Austin Pendleton and Fisher Stevens are funny as, respectively, an ambiguous enemy and the malaprop-prone friend of what is finally just a pretty good special effect...
...Pendleton should know, his critics reply. In 1977, Pendleton and two white business partners set up an industrial supply firm in San Diego that unsuccessfully sought status as a minority vendor. "He is the last person in the world to talk about front companies," said Democratic Congressman Parren Mitchell of Baltimore, author of one federal set-aside program. Pendleton rejects the charge that the firm was a shell operation...
...aside flap is only one aspect of Pendleton's career in San Diego that is coming under increasing scrutiny. Pendleton left the San Diego Urban League, which he headed from 1975 to 1982, with a deficit of $179,000, and the league sued him to recover part of $9,990 that he issued to himself on his final day of work to cover unused vacation time. The matter was settled confidentially out of court...
...Pendleton's tenure as commission chairman has also raised a few eyebrows in Washington. The General Accounting Office disclosed to Congress that in the & past three years Pendleton has claimed $188,000 in salary payments for his part-time job, reporting a total of 706 workdays--twice the time claimed by any other current commissioner. If Pendleton does not run afoul of the commission for his views, he may still come to grief over his expenses...