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Through a series of events, climaxing in a weekend retreat. Danny enters the eerie world of "Homeland" Although he is initially drawn to the group by a woman--Rebecca--whom he meets in a restaurant, he soon fails under the spell of the cult's leader. Neal Kirklander (Peter Fonda). An incredible synthesis of Jim Jones, the Reverend Moon, and Jesus Christ. Kirklander completely dominates his followers lives. At a spacious country estate, he entertains his "guests" in barrack-like dorms and large meeting rooms (With its white-stone facade, the compound looks more like an architect's model than...
CHARACTERS LIKE WOODS would have been much more effective if the movie had stuck to one main plot instead of trying to generically represent cult life. But with numerous stars who participate in too many subplots, we lose track of the central theme. For instance, important scenes between Rebecca and Danny are interrupted by scenes involving Danny's parents and the basic running of the cult. The difficulties--both physical and emotional--that the lovers encounter in their relationship reflect the movie's inability to point our attention in any one direction...
...observation and febrile sensitivity of Woolf's is getting boring. Lost the argument by opening to a page at random. She says of Henry James' prose: "His pounce & grip & swing always spring fresh upon me." Ditto with her. The literary portraits alone are worth the price: Huxley, Rebecca West, old Shaw and Yeats, T.S. Eliot ("hard, spry, a glorified boy scout in shorts & yellow shirt. . . settling in with some severity to being a great...
Last August the body of Rebecca Heath was found near La Grange, Ga., slumped behind the steering wheel of her family's Oldsmobile. The car had smashed into a small tree, and at first it appeared that she, and the nine-month fetus she was carrying, had died in an auto accident. X rays revealed, however, that her right eyelid had been closed over a bullet hole made by a .32-cal. slug as it was fired into her brain. Investigators in La Grange then built a case of murder-for-hire against her husband Larry, his girlfriend Denise...
Steve and Jane Brinkley, with whom this report began, started reorganizing their lives in their Chicago suburb and have survived. They even found that their son preferred public school to the private institution that had cost them $2,000 a year. Rebecca Marsh Lewis, near Dallas, finally paid off her last bills in March. She and her new husband make "limited use" of their credit cards. Jeanne, the California businesswoman, is still paying but looks on her situation as "one of those life crises we will have to overcome together." One of the hardest parts, she says, was "the attitude...