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WASHINGTON: China's Hong Kong chief C.H. Tung's roadshow to convince global partners it's business is usual in the former British Colony has drawn no applause from politicians here, and is likely to make little headway with President Clinton Friday. TIME White House correspondent. Jef McAllister notes that Tung's plan to cut the number of eligible Hong Kong voters from 2.7 million constituents to 180,000 representatives of "functional constituencies" was sharply criticized by Sen. Jesse Helms as "undemocratic" and "unacceptable." McAllister predicts "Tung will have an equally difficult meeting with President Clinton...
...filmmakers at Cannes are following the Sundance example and cutting economical deals for small "classic" films at a fraction of the cost of the average big-budget Hollywood production. While Dustin Hoffman and his production company, Punch Productions, have announced a deal with the Australian production company Village Roadshow to finance and distribute small dramatic films for about $10 million apiece, action producer Joel Silver is teaming up with "Lethal Weapon" director Richard Donner to make low-budget action films in the $10 million range. Setting the abstemious tone at the opening Cannes press conference, Jury President Frances Ford Coppolla...
...Arts Council's greatest achievements, he says, was the creation of an educational roadshow to bring opera and theatre--as well as post-performance discussions and workshops for students and townspeople--to provincial towns. "We've had dance companies go into the toughest parts of Liverpool--where the riots were--and dance with the kids in the schools and convince them that dance isn't a sissy occupation but one that requires remarkable physical skill and agility. And they actually got very tough boys interested in doing it, and in wanting to come...
...ingenue," says Kathryn Crosby, 44. But Bing's widow finds acting a catharsis. "Twenty-four hours a day sounds about right," says Crosby, who made a dozen or so films before her marriage in 1957. This week she sets out on a nationwide, 65-city roadshow tour of the two-character Broadway hit Same Time, Next Year. Her role: Doris, a faithful adultress who for more than two decades has an annual meeting with the same lover. "If Betsy Palmer gets tired of playing Doris on Broadway, I'm available at the end of April," Crosby quips...
...important scenes-and twenty minutes of screen time-were cut from Lawrence of Arabia after its initial roadshow presentation. It is the cut print which is being exhibited in the current re-release. The first scene mutilated was an addition to Lawrence's second interview with General Allenby, when, upon begging permission to leave the desert, Lawrence is persuaded by his commanding officer that he is an "extraordinary" man-which explains Lawrence's subsequent hysterical tone during the drive to Damascus and the massacre of Turkish troops at Tafas. The second scene, set in a Turkish hospital in Damascus, displayed...