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...tossed such creatures into the eddies of larger events. In A Hall of Mirrors (1967), a pot-smoking disk jockey in New Orleans stumbles into the fringes of a radical right-wing uprising. Dog Soldiers (1974) depicted California drug traffic as the Viet Nam War coming home to roost. A Flag for Sunrise (1981) showed some misfits sinking into a vortex of Central American revolution. The background stakes in Children of Light are, by comparison, inconsequential. A movie budgeted at a mere $7 million will go down the tubes if Lu Anne somehow manages to play her affliction...
...terribly disappointing to have faith in someone as a role model and have them turn out to be tainted," complained Gladys Roost, 80, a Dodger fan in Los Angeles. Shirley Murphy, 33, a secretary in Baltimore, agreed. "It is a damn shame that these guys can't depend on their talent to see them through," she said. Declared Ralph Bass, 63, a Texas Ranger booster: "Making that kind of money, they ought to set a better example...
...these is entering the last month of its run at the Pierpont Morgan Library in New York City: "Old Master Drawings from the Albertina." It has already been seen at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, and on May 26 its contents return to their ancestral roost in Vienna, unlikely ever to be seen again on this side of the Atlantic...
Movieland is the ideal roost for a young refugee with big ideas. "Do not listen to the envious and the insensate," warns Pyat. "The illusion of Hollywood is thoroughly tangible." Anything is possible with the Old World in ruins, and Pyat will try anything. He buys a 13-year-old prostitute and reinvents her as a lost soul mate from his Russian childhood; he tours the U.S. as a lecturer for the Ku Klux Klan...
Decimating the Roost...