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...saga of coastwatching has been swamped by the gross tonnage of war books launched in the past 30 years. Yet, as Lord describes it, vital Pacific island victories were won with the eyes and ears of clandestine observers: ex-planters, Micronesian guides, Australian mavericks, priests and nuns, who provided intelligence essential to understanding the enemy's battle plans...
Italian Actress Marilu Tolo took a crash course in English in Los Angeles and( is now speaking it-with brio-in a Greek drama on the island of Corfu. Tolo is on the set of The Greek Tycoon, the saga of a shipping magnate (Anthony Quinn) who chucks his mezzo-soprano mistress (Tolo) in order to marry the widow of an assassinated U.S. President (Jacqueline Bisset). All fantasy, of course. Tolo (pronounced Taw-lo) described her part as that of "a famous opera singer, a tempestuous, explosive character" who is "not Maria Callas." If there is any resemblance...
With the publication of A Division of the Spoils in 1975, English Author Paul Scott completed The Raj Quartet -a four-novel, 2,000-page saga set in India during the sunset of British rule. To the regret of Scott's many devotees, that seemed to be that: the last of the white sahibs and memsahibs taking their bows in a long, engrossing valedictory. Not quite. Staying On offers another look at a locale familiar to readers of The Raj Quartet. This new novel is less a sequel than a graceful comic coda to the earlier song of India...
...stars of the film, a saga of CB truckers based on C.W. McCall's 1975 hit song, are more charitable. "Only Sam knows what he's doing, but I trust him," says Ali MacGraw, who is trying to make a movie comeback as a chic photojournalist who falls in love with a trucker. "Sam is like an old dog you sometimes have to apologize for," says Kris Kristofferson, the trucker Ali falls for. A more direct comment comes from Burt Young, who played Talia Shire's crude, ugly brother in Rocky and who goes...
Bluhdorn is hoping to repeat the success of The Godfather with one of the dozen or so movies that Paramount will introduce this year: Orca, the saga of a killer whale, produced by Dino de Laurentiis, or Looking for Mr. Goodbar, a Richard Brooks adaptation of the best-selling novel. Columbia is putting its big bets on Close Encounters of the Third Kind, another science adventure epic, and The Deep, a successor to Jaws, which is the highest-grossing motion picture of all time (MCA's count of the worldwide gross: $196 million). A rash of copycat productions...