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...less rigid, especially when a species is being protected at the expense of what they consider the larger public good. Accordingly, some members of Congress have submitted legislation that would allow endangered flora and fauna to be wiped out if saving them proved too costly. Says an aide to Robin Beard, a Tennessee Republican leading the House antifunding forces: "The problem now is that the law allows no exceptions. It doesn't matter what the circumstances...
...Adventures of Robin Hood. Erroll Flynn's greatest romantic performance is Captain Blood--but Robin Hood is preferred by many transexual classicists because of the cute breeches. None of the Disney gruel here. Second greatest soundtrack to Days of Heaven. Some filmic dryasdusts dredge up the 1914 seven hour version with Belgian director Lionel Von Rennselaeaer's lighthearted experiments in figure/ground confusion done on highly explosive nitrate stock, but the lead was played by a stolid burgher whose sword work looked something like Boog Powell trying to bunt. Flynn, the great rakehell, leaves no doubt that he knew...
Adventures of Robin Hood. At Hilles Library, Friday at 8, Saturday...
...Robin Schmidt, vice president for government and community affairs, agreed that the Carter proposal is much better than the tax credit bill, and noted that the College has supported Carter on the issue all along...
Today Valerie no longer has to feed Robin information on audience response or coach him on delivery; the prestigious management firm of Rollins and Joffe, which also handles Woody Allen, Robert Klein and Martin Mull, takes care of that. Robin and Valerie live simply in a studio apartment in Los Angeles and a weekend house at Zuma Beach that they share with a parrot named Cora and two iguanas (one of which is named Truman Capote because, as Robin explains, "he's cold-blooded"). Robin's sketches, however, occasionally reflect the ironies of Celluloid City. One, called the "Hollywood Mime...