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...potential audience of 1.2 million, only about 130,000, or 11%, opted to pay $10 to watch the show, which stars Linda Ronstadt, Kevin Kline, Angela Lansbury, George Rose and the rocker Rex Smith. Moreover, in its first weekend, the movie earned a meager theater box office of $255,000, as well as the enmity of exhibitors, who resented Universal's undermining of their customary exclusive on movie premieres. Says Mitchell Neuhauser, associate executive director of the Independent Theater Owners Association: "Exhibitors don't want to be treated like second-class citizens...
Edmund Morris, 42, has also completed one volume of a three-part presidential study. The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt won a Pulitzer Prize in 1980, and Theodore Rex will appear within two years. Unlike Caro, Morris, who keeps residences on New York City's fashionable Central Park South and in Washington, D.C., is bully on his subject. "I got interested listening to Nixon's farewell speech to his staff," he says, "because he quoted T.R.'s elegy to his dying wife." The result was an unproduced screenplay, The Dude from New York City. Some four years later...
...Judy Holliday (in Bom Yesterday, 1950) and memorable ones by Greta Garbo in Camille, Judy Garland in A Star Is Born, and Katharine Hepburn, Cukor's discovery, in ten productions, including The Philadelphia Story and Adam's Rib. Cukor also directed James Stewart, Ronald Colman and Rex Harrison to Oscars. Despite his films' critical and commercial success, Cukor won only one directorial Oscar, for 1964's My Fair Lady...
...British public was indeed enthralled by the emotional encounter between the 1,800 Falkland Islanders and the woman they regard as a heroine and savior. Most of the country followed her progress on television as the Prime Minister jounced along rutted roads in Civil Commissioner Sir Rex Hunt's maroon London taxi; accepted pink roses and wild cheers from the islanders; stood, head bowed, at the simple white cross marking the grave of Paratrooper Lieut. Colonel H. Jones, whose courage won him the Victoria Cross; and placed flowers by the 14 graves overlooking San Carlos Bay, where British troops...
...inspired New Jewel Movement has run up a $17.1 million debt that equals 21 % of the country's annual production of goods and services. Despite largescale emigration from the islands, unemployment has reached rates of more than 30%, with the level approaching 50% among increasingly restive youths. Says Rex Nettleford, a Jamaican author and director of studies for the Trade Union Institute of the University of the West Indies: "If there are not fundamental changes, we are going to have very serious problems. Violence is quite possible...