Word: roles
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...somewhat surprised that you made no mention at all of Israel's experiment in social democracy, which has certainly played a major role in successfully reshaping Jewish society in its country. The kibbutz, Israel's collective farm, is perhaps the most original and certainly the most successful working model of a socialist idea...
Your story "Pot Smugglers' Paradise" [March 13], about drug runners in Florida points out that the good guys are losing, and losing big. All American taxpayers foot the bill for Government's role in this game, and pot consumers (by and large taxpayers also) pay the bill to organized crime for the "insurance" made necessary by the DEA and other Government agencies...
Some of the flavor missing in the script is captured by Tim McIntire's crafty performance in the starring role. Chainsmoking Luckies and always looking in four directions at once, McIntire's Freed is a classic show-biz hustler. The film's best scenes show him at his office dickering with the fast-talking agents who assaulted him day and night. McIntire listens to auditioning singers for only a few bars before turning thumbs up or down, and he exercises his power with sleazy theatrical relish. Unfortunately, even McIntire cannot fill in the movie's most...
...Good Morning, America, public television's Great American Dream Machine) has approached at least a dozen candidates for the host job, including Washington Post Executive Editor Ben Bradlee, who turned down a $5,000-a-week salary and a promise that he could retain his role at the newspaper...
...widest success as Fredo, the slow, shy, forever startled, finally traitorous older brother in Francis Coppola's Godfather films. Other parts-notably as Al Pacino's out-of-tune partner in Dog Day Afternoon-confirmed Cazale's gift for searching out the darkest shadows in a role, then rendering them with shades of wit and unswerving compassion...