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...Lake Placid, N. Y., which played host to the Winter Olympics of 1932, has been chosen again for the 1980 Games. And after years of decay and decline, the little (pop. 2,800) Adirondack village is already experiencing a boom that could change the nature of the town forever. TIME Correspondent Peter Staler reports...
...friend. By placing him as God in the center of a movie, Reiner may feel he is paying the ultimate tribute to this cigar-smoking, endearing little man. Too bad Reiner's religious offering did not include a good script. Great pains have obviously been taken to prevent the placid Burns from being upstaged; Reiner has chosen to cast him opposite John Denver, an innocuous, highly-forgettable country-western singer, and a company of lovable codgers from Barnard Hughes to Ralph Bellamy. Denver's wife, who must put up with his "visions," is played, badly, by Teri Garr, who went...
While the play is laced with affectionately bantering humor and a gamy ration of powder-room candor, the characters are Stereotopical. The overachieving careerist (Jill Eikenberry) has become a lawyer. The placid one (Ann McDonough) who opted for marriage opts for pregnancy. The rollicking rebel (Swoosie Kurtz) who planned to write a novel gets writer's block. Prosaic justice? All of the actresses are well skilled. They might be better employed...
Life is too short to spend reading 470 page novels about subjects that have been written dry before. We know too much about the placid suburbia of the '50s and the upheaval of the '60s. Even feminists--or perhaps, especially feminists--are tired of reading epics of raised consciousness and multiple orgasms. Least of all we need another book set at Harvard. Even if it does have a promising opening scene set in the bathroom of Sever Hall...
...already stopped in Roxbury to pick up the kids. Now it's rolling through Dedham and into the suburb of Walpole, a placid, ordinary community except for the enormous white structure looming in the dusk: a state prison that shares the town's name--a name that signifies everything wrong with prisons in this part of the country...