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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...answer in the book; whether it actually carried over into this screenplay is not at all clear. One of those great rumors has it that Faulkner, who was out in Hollywood taking his day in the sun touching up this script, could make neither heads nor tails of the plot-line and got in touch with novelist Raymond Chandler for some clues. "Beats me if I can figure the story out," Chandler said. Maybe your luck will be better. Or maybe you won't much care, since Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall, as the undauntable Philip Marlowe and the seductive...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Swell Dames and Death Wishes | 2/16/1978 | See Source »

...liners in Richard Benner's brilliant comedy about a female impersonator's rise to stardom and the whacked-out woman behind his success. Craig Russell's unabashedly gay hairdresser has graced us with a character we will not soon forget, completely stealing the show in the movie's plot and the movie itself. His series of famed singers and actresses belting out "Diamonds Are A Girl's Best Friend" will bring down any house, so carefully honed are his Channings and Ellas. Co-star Hollis McLaren is inevitably overshadowed by Russell's stagewise presence, but the delicate treatment she gives...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Swell Dames and Death Wishes | 2/16/1978 | See Source »

Frank Kermode, King Edward VII Professor of English Literature, discussed the relationship between plot and character, dealing primarily with the role of Judas in the passion of the New Testament...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Norton Lectures | 2/14/1978 | See Source »

There was some predictable anti-U.S. rhetoric, including a complaint by Algerian Foreign Minister Abdelaziz Bouteflika about an "American-Zionist" plot to keep the Soviet Union out of the peace process. But when it came time to define what measures should be taken against Sadat, none was forthcoming. Concluded TIME Correspondent Dean Brelis: "Sadat so far has outsmarted the Arabs who oppose him because he continues to insist on a comprehensive settlement. They are clearly afraid that, despite the countless obstacles, Sadat will somehow pull off a settlement." Having gambled that he will fail, the anti-Sadat Arabs have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MIDDLE EAST: The Problems Sadat Left Behind | 2/13/1978 | See Source »

...once commiserating with her nephew on the curse of having been born an Aldrich: "That made you the inher itor of a long-established tradition of rascalry, thievery, sexual perversion, treason, sedition, blasphemy and apparently, in my case, gratuitous witchcraft." There are, preposterously, several Mohawk Indians involved in the plot, one of whom is named Sybaritic Hawk. Student demonstrations of the late '60s, ecological struggles, communes, civil rights trials, street life among urban porn establish ments, all have been dragged, entertainingly, into The Lady from Boston...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mutual Loathing | 2/6/1978 | See Source »

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