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...would have been bigger than "Love Story." Robert Redford was supposed to screen his new morality play, the movie "Quiz Show," for first-years next Tuesday, and the Crimson Key had even printed the event on its Freshman Week T-shirts...
...easy thing to find out. Evidently, Shari Dickstein, the valedictorian held it together better during senior year while college applications and (no doubt) demanding activities step into high gear. Along the twists and turns of high school, there are often cases when a teacher's dislike, a forgotten quiz or a misunderstood homework assignment has caused a grade to be "unfairly" lowered. The Spring Valley High School system of determining valedictorians is no better nor worse than most...
...actors in the booths at the side are an alternately intriguing and confusing complement to the action. A quiz in the program serves as a guide to some of their obscure refrences ("Get our of the house! Get out of the--" is from: Ulysses or "Amityville Horror"?). These references are ineffectively used to deflate the porn industry's claim that the lines between art and trash are blurred and can't be legislated. Most of the time the gyrating and gasping of the booth people is merely white noise for the family scene. It is only at the end that...
...Award, a New York Film Critics Circle citation and, as of last week, an Oscar nomination as Best Supporting Actor for his work in Schindler's List. In September moviegoers will see him as Charles van Doren, that fallen savant of '50s TV, in Robert Redford's much touted Quiz Show. After that, who can say? Spielberg can: "If he picks the right roles and doesn't forget the theater, I think he can eventually be Alec Guinness or Laurence Olivier...
Those who do poorly on the quiz, however, can have the grade dropped if they receive a better score on the final...