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Family Plot. (at the Sack Savoy, Boston). Hitchcock at 78 is still better than anyone else, anytime. This film combines dextrous suspense with a broad humor uncharacteristic of Hitchcock's usual perverse sensibilities. Bruce Dern seems to finally ascending to the position as a major American star that has been predicted for him for years. Dern has cornered the market on self-conscious, self-deluding characters; the locus classicus of such types is California which Hitchcock has portrayed as a land of fast-food joints, endless highways and depraved small towns--in other words, accurately...
...distressed by what she calls "a lack of compassion on the part of the councilors" and "inadequate community involvement and suupervision" on the part of the police. "People in this city don't work together and they never have," Savoy said...
...Savoy is not campaigning actively: "The incumbents will win; they have the best personal contacts; and there aren't really any issues," she said. "They'll just keep yessing the city manager to death and hoping the economy picks...
...Alice M. Savoy...
...Alice Savoy is making her second try for city council because she wants to show the incumbent councilors that she's upset...