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...only lumber but human beings. Shlink and Garga exchange fortunes, trying to out-toy fate. Unfortunately, Director David Jones understresses the Rimbaud-Verlaine love-hate homosexual bond, which is at the core of the drama. At play's end Shlink takes his own life with a vial of poison, and Garga moves to New York-an anambiguous ending if ever there...
...because he is a Jew, is rehearsing a production of an insipid Norwegian melodrama entitled "The Disappearance." The play has to be inspidid to please the censors and a certain Daxiat, a collaborating theater critic who speaks the language of civility and art but whose reviews are rabid diatribes, poison pen letters under the guise of apolitical culture. As the troupe carries on rehearsals of the play, the pattern of occupation life emerges. The owner, who has ostensibly fled the country, is actually hiding in the basement of the theater, listening to the rehearsals through a hole in the heating...
...They tell me the purple ones are poison," then nonchalantly popped it into his mouth-as if to symbolize that he was slashing spending with equal nerve and verve...
...Director Roman Polanski, who cast her in Tess, she is the "new Ingrid Bergman, a supernova." To Alberto Lattuada, who directed her in Stay As You Are (1980), she is "a mixture of poison and nectar." more the latter at the box office. But to her own mind, German-born Nastassja Kinski, 20, is, like her actor-father Klaus, simply, "a professional." Asked to close-crop her luxuriant locks for Francis Ford Coppola's One from the Heart, the actress instantly complied. "I do whatever the role requires," says the now almost tressless Tess. -By Claudia Wallis...
Larry Chartienitz, a 34-year-old exMarine, spoke for his organization, Veterans Against Foreign Wars: "I would fight to really defend this country, but no one should willingly sign up to fight for nothing for some politician and have poison put in your body...