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...JULIA's strengths much outweigh its flaws. Although Zinnemann occasionally lapses into such cliches as juxtaposing plush hotels with Nazi terror to make statements about inequality--a gimmick that should have gone out with War and Peace--his direction is usually sound and the cast generally rises above any momentary awkwardness. To some, Lillian Hellman is a heroic cult figure; to others she is a commercialized martyr. In Julia, though, she is simply human, retracing in her memory a cherished portrait...
Haldeman, who lives quietly in Los Angeles, and has been seen lunching at Orange County's plush Balboa Yacht Club, also has huge legal bills. After the court's action last week, he called a press conference on his front lawn and said: "For the past three weeks I have been watching the Nixon-Frost interviews. I've avoided comment because I had the hope they would clear up many of the questions that remained. Unfortunately, they did not. I feel now that I have to challenge President Nixon's explanation of the cover...
Massachusetts' remaining Yankees--the Sargents and the Saltonstalls--fare no better, as their isolated indifference and calculated impotence is attacked. Lupo sees the Yankees as content to control the city through its finances, operating from plush State Street bank offices, escaping to North Shore farmhouses and summer homes on the Cape. In one of the more effective vignettes in the book, Lupo juxtaposes a Republican-sponsored cocktail party in placid Dover with the frantic, non-stop efforts of Kevin White to cool the city down...
...something was terribly wrong in the life of Comedian Freddie Prinze. After a few games of backgammon at his TV producer's home late last week, he returned to his $695-a-month apartment in the plush Beverly Comstock Hotel. Depressed, he called his parents and his psychiatrist. He told them he was going to kill himself. His secretary and his business manager, Marvin Snyder, had come over to cheer him up. Then, with Snyder still present, Prinze hung up the phone after talking with his estranged wife Katherine, reached down into the sofa's cushions, pulled...
...Kennedy Center that night, the audience-in evening dress-stood to applaud as the Carter family entered, Jimmy in a subdued black tuxedo and ruffled shirt, Rosalynn in a long red skirt and black blouse, and Amy in a red juniper. With pleased grins, they settled into the plush seats of the presidential box for the glittering, 2½-hr. 1977 New Spirit Inaugural Concert...