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...this week's Sport preview of the George Foreman-Muhammad Ali title fight in Zaïre, Nairobi Bureau Chief Lee Griggs revisited the capital city of Kinshasa. When he was last there in 1962, the city was known as Leopoldville, the country was the Congo, and the story was about a bloody revolution. "Needless to say, things are much more pleasant today," says Griggs. "The sight of a press card in the old days often provoked soldiers into prodding you with bayonets or banging you in the kidneys with rifle butts. Today they wave you through roadblocks...
...last Hesse story that got a film treatment, Siddhartha, turned out horrendously, but the new film has the potential to be at least interesting. The cast for this one is quite good: Max von Sydow and Dominique Sandra star. The Orson Welles is having a one-time-only "sneak" preview tonight, so if you're interested be forewarned...
...used to believe that the self-parodying ineptness of films like this one was the antidote supplied by thoughtful producers to counteract their poisonous ideas. But the appalling example of Walking Tall is still before us. At least one preview audience actually cheered this urban variant on that rube farce. So let the matter be stated as forcefully as possible: Death Wish is a meretricious film-in its curious lack of feeling even for innocent victims of crime, in its hysterical exaggerations of an undeniable problem, and especially in its brazen endorsement of violence as a solution to violence...
...People of the United States v. Richard Nixon, a mildly entertaining courtroom drama, is having a brief preview run at the Supreme Court this week before moving across the street to bigger and better things in the House of Representative. James St. Clair stars as the slippery lawyer who tries to clear the path for executive dictatorship. Leon Jaworski is, for the first time in his life, cast in the role of the hero. I know how this one ends, but I won't tell you because I don't want to spoil the suspense...
...Tempest will be alternating at the Publick Theater with Salome all summer long, beginning with a preview performance of the Shakespeare romance on July 4. The Publick Theater, 1175 Soldiers Field Road in Allston, is an outdoor arena and a pleasant place to see a good show if the weather and cast are cooperative. Bring your own seat and wait for some other night if the weather is threatening. Tickets are $2 cheap...