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...abduction from the seraglio is the prettiest piece of acrobatic larceny since the heist scene in Topkapi, and in the last reel Director Ronald Neame (The Horse's Mouth) contrives five trick endings in rapid succession that finish the film with a rousing funfare...
...Chelsea Girls opens silently on the right screen with a blonde cutting her bangs. Five minutes later, the scene on the left screen begins--in the room of a homosexual posturing as a Catholic priest, hearing the confession of some girl. When the reel on one screen runs out, there is silence for a while until the sound-track for the other is tuned up, and some time after that a new scene begins on the first screen. And so it moves through lesbians and junkies and homosexuals lolling on their beds. About halfway through, Warhol switches to color...
Somewhat grudgingly, Chancellor Murphy concedes that U.C.L.A.'s sister campus at Berkeley is "more prestigious"-but then he will reel off a host of statistics to prove how much the gap has narrowed. This fall, student enrollment at U.C.L.A. has finally caught up with Berkeley at about 27,500-the planned maximum. Six years ago, U.C.L.A. took in a scant $10 million in research grants; now it gets more than $36 million a year, and its annual budget has more than doubled, to $85 million. On U.C.L.A.'s sprawling campus in Westwood, 31 new buildings costing $142 million...
...example, in Torn Curtain, I decided with the production designer that up to the first reel of the film, which starts in Copenhagen and ends in East Berlin, we'd have a certain amount of color up to that, and from then on the colors would be grey and beige for the mood of the iron curtains. A touch of red here and there, inspired by the color of the uniforms they wore. So that was the scheme...
Died. Louis Marron, 67, dean of U.S. big game fishermen, a burly Florida oilman, who in 1953 off the coast of Chile boated a 1,182-lb. broadbill swordfish, at the time the biggest game fish of any kind to be landed on rod and reel and still tops for a species widely regarded as the strongest and most difficult; of a heart attack; in Manhattan...