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Nonetheless, the battle of the sexes turns out, as ever, to be a minor holocaust. The combatants: one wife and two husbands. The first husband (Rip Torn) arrives incognito to strike up a friendship with the second husband (John Heard), an artist at a Swedish resort hotel. Systematically, satanically, the older man destroys the younger. He suggests that he give up painting to become a sculptor and then deplores his sculpting. He arouses fears about his health, plants doubts about his wife's fidelity and certainties about her leeching parasitism...
John Heard, as the second husband, is an appealingly stingless jellyfish. Despite her slightly mannered delivery of certain lines, Geraldine Page is a co quettish flirt while remaining a sexual feline with unretracted claws. Rip Torn has an affinity for Strindberg; he drinks up his part as if it were hemlock with a sprig of mint. A frequently underestimated actor, Torn exudes a combustible sense of imminent danger that makes him one of the most powerful presences on the U.S. stage...
...make the charts. "All my life I've wanted to be a singer," claims Peter, 37. Should Mick Jagger, George Harrison & Co. start eating their hearts out? Not according to Critic Fonda. "I think I'm singing on key," he admits, "but nobody is going to rip out my throat because of my singing...
...starting six preseason and another half-dozen regular-season games for the Pittsburgh Steelers in 1974. His record up to that point was 10-1-1, but his life was hell in a very small place. Lynn Swann recalls: "He would get anonymous phone calls. They said they could rip him off any time they wanted to, there were two guns pointed at him, that if he started the ball game, he'd never see another day." Gilliam's performance declined steadily under the pressure; Terry Bradshaw took over and led the Steelers to their first Super Bowl...
...reasons never fully explained we are asked to believe that the U.S. Government is storing deadly bacteria, useful in germ warfare, at the World Health Organization headquarters in Geneva. For reasons never fully explained, a team of agents?their allegiance never identified?breaks in to rip the stuff off. Two are stopped, but one gets away and, infected with the plague, boards an international express train bound for Sweden. For reasons n.f.e., Burt Lancaster, the American intelligence agent in charge of arresting both crook and disease, orders the cars sealed (to prevent an epidemic), then diverts the express to Poland...