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...subsided. The reason: Murdoch, 49, named Sunday Times Editor Harold Evans to the top job at the venerable daily. Evans, 52, an esteemed journalist and a passionate campaigner for press freedom, is also tough-an important quality to have when dealing with Murdoch. Says London Guardian Editor Peter Preston: "Evans has as good a chance as anybody to make a success...
Director Travis Preston, recognizing the work's nature, has staged the work simply by placing the three singers on a dark stage instead of at the front of a concert hall. The performance of the songs by Robert Honeysucker, David Ripley and Kim Scown is remarkably emotional for such somber music, and Honeysucker especially in the "Second Report on the Unknown Soldier" creates an affecting vocal performance with no need of a set of other theatrical assistance...
...Like Preston Sturges, the great American comedy director of 40 years ago whose work this film most resembles, Jonathan Demme understands that however flaky and naive a simple soul's dream may be, it is the thing that sustains him and gives him a reason to live; thus he cannot permit his dream to be trifled with. As there was in Demme's equally expert 1977 film Handle with Care, there is affection without patronization here, an unforced appreciation of eccentricity that, in the age of Animal House, is wonderful to behold...
Democrats like former Governors Preston Smith and Allan Shivers are actively supporting Reagan; and last week they were joined by still another defector, Watergate Prosecutor Leon Jaworski, who said he preferred a "competent extremist" in the White House to an "incompetent moderate"-not that he thought Reagan was extreme any longer...
...says. But Haggam who had a littie of J.R.'s way with women even then, wisely let a little time pass, then asked her out-on his Vespa scooter. They celebrated their 25th wedding anniversary last December in the company of their two children, Heidi, now 22, and Preston...