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Although it begins with all the standard props of detective fiction, Thomas Berger's eighth novel is a spoof of whodunits only in the sense that Portnoy's Complaint was a redaction of Oedipus Rex. Berger's chief debt is not to the novels of Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler but to the fiction of the '60s (including his own Little Big Man), written before black humor had been eclipsed by black studies. The convoluted and brazenly preposterous plot of Who Is Teddy Villanova? is simply Berger's excuse to practice verbal gunplay with...
...friend Henry Kissinger. But Raquel is hardly over the hill yet. After a three-continent swing with a song-and-dance routine, she took a new act to Lake Tahoe, Nev., where she played to enthusiastic audiences. At Easter, her latest film, The Prince and the Pauper, with Rex Harrison, Oliver Reed and George C. Scott, is scheduled for release. Says Raquel: "There are a number of ladies who do it all: music, movies, shows-and, well, I'm just one of those...
...scenery and the costumes, which cost $300,000, are a dazzling plus. But the acting is, surprisingly, no more than competent. Elizabeth Ashley is a vital Cleopatra - half alley cat, half Queen - but more Shakespeare's lady of the Nile than Shaw's. Rex Harrison's Caesar is a burnt-out case who does not seem to remember what it was like to be warm - let alone what it was like to be Caesar. Gerald Clarke
...twelve weekend performances in a workshop production at Manhattan's Cathedral of St. John the Divine, he agreed to work for nothing. "I even put in $1 a week for coffee," he says good-naturedly. Why so? Jones, 46, is fascinated with his role of Oedipus Rex and the adaptation of Sophocles' play selected for the production. For Translator John Lewin, says Jones, "the gut of the play is the discovery that Oedipus' mama agreed with Oedipus' papa to put Oedipus on a hillside at age three or four weeks, with spikes in his feet...
Some producers are also refusing to pump from wells already drilled. Jones Co. Ltd. of Albany, Texas, spent $4 million drilling four wells in Colorado that one partner, Jon Rex Jones, estimates could be delivering gas to customers in six months. But he insists that he will not connect them to a pipeline unless he is certain of getting $2 per 1,000 cu. ft. for the gas. In addition, producers in Houston readily tick off examples of fields where they are sure gas exists in commercial quantities, but where they will not drill. Reason: unless the interstate price goes...