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...real-life boss who found himself with a secretarial pool consisting of self-starters like Jane Fonda, Lily Tomlin and Dolly Parton would be afraid to make waves. But in Nine to Five, which the three are shooting together in Hollywood, their reel-life boss is so tyrannical they spend perfectly good clock-watching time fantasizing ways to get him into hot water. Some ways are slightly extreme: rat poison in the coffee Tomlin is required to fetch him, for example. But the movie is played for laughs, and in the end stenovirtue triumphs when the underlings reorganize the office...
...point, the Crimson Clung to a tenuous 4-3 lead, fifth-slotted Geordie Lemmon trailed 0-1 in games, and 1-8 in the second contest. But Lemmon showed his mettle by rebounding to reel off nine straight points, and thereafter had little trouble disposing...
Colored dots also fill the screen as the final credits roll for Being There, for which director Hal Ashby has coaxed terrific performances from Peter Sellers and Shirley MacLaine. These dots are tiny in contrast to those on the "filler" reel before Electric; they form the image of a gigantic color TV on the blink. This spectrum of static, infuriating when it appears on the 19-inch Sony in the den, seems almost beautiful, an electric Jackson Pollock or Gene Davis gone haywire on this enormous cinema canvas. The Being There audience stays until the last credit has disappeared over...
...totally programmed and controlled. Called Lifehouse, the piece was intended to be a kind of environmental theater event. Some of Townshend's best songs were written originally for Lifehouse: Baba O'Riley, with its synthesizer line running like cold water down the spine, mixing with an old Irish fiddle reel and the memorable lyric refrain, "Don't cry/ Don't raise your eye/ It's only teen-age wasteland"; the aching, almost elegant poignancy of The Song Is Over and Pure and Easy. All these songs concerned music and the compact of trust between audience and artist. As compositions they...
...played the klunk as Colonel Klink, the inept P.O.W. camp commander in TV's forever rerunning Hogan's Heroes. Away from reel life, Werner Klemperer is anything but a Dummkopf. This week at New York City's Metropolitan Opera, Klemperer is definitely out of Luftwaffe uniform and appears in turban and robe as Turkish Pasha Selim, a nonsinging role in Mozart's The Abduction from the Seraglio. The role is not a one-shot stop from the stalag for Klemperer. The son of famed Conductor Otto Klemperer, he has also narrated Schoenberg's Gurre-Lieder...