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Holy Moses, what an all-star cast that is in the upcoming Wholly Moses, a desanctified recast of the biblical story. The premise of the movie is that a second baby, Herschel, was set adrift on the Nile at the same time as Moses. Never mind the hieroglyphic plot; just consider a cast that includes John Houseman, Madeline Kahn, John Ritter, Laraine Newman, James Coco, Jack Gilford, Dom DeLuise and Jack Albertson, along with Richard Pryor in a robes-and-rigamarole cameo as the pharaoh who puts Herschel down. Pryor became ill on the set, and no wonder. Maybe even...
...result, less busing was required of white students. In Tampa, desegregation recast schools in black neighborhoods as integrated centers for the sixth and seventh grades; extensive busing of white students was done only for these two grades. Black students had to put up with most of the busing for grades 1 through 5 and 8 through...
Born out of a personal concern for the country and his private political despair, Carter's exercise in group-think seemed destined, if successful, to recast his whole approach to leadership, the tone and emphasis of his Administration and, finally, American society. If not successful, then the singular twelve days in July might turn out to be a spectacular dramatization of just what is wrong with Carter's presidency -talk without understanding, programs without the means of implementation. When Carter finally came down to the Potomac valley last week, the question of what had happened was still delicately...
DIED. F.W. Dupee, 74, literary critic and longtime professor of English at Columbia University (1948-71); of a drug overdose; in Carmel, Calif. A Chicago-born graduate of Yale who worked as a Marxist labor organizer in the 1930s, Dupee in 1937 helped recast as anti-Stalinist the Partisan Review, a radical literary magazine founded three years earlier. Eschewing his political extremism, he eventually achieved prominence as a Henry James scholar, popular poetry teacher and elegant writer on figures ranging from Sir Richard Burton to Charlie Chaplin...
...setting is again Faber College, circa 1962, and many of the characters from the hit movie are back. Though a few of the film's supporting players (John Vernon, Stephen Furst) have hitched up with the TV show, most of the roles have been recast. Realizing that John Belushi's maniacal Bluto is irreplaceable, the series' creators have wisely retired him from action. In Delta House, Bluto has fled Faber forever, to be succeeded by a younger brother known as Blotto. Josh Mostel, who plays the sibling, shares Belushi's girth but is otherwise attempting...