Word: scotts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Additional revenues would come in handy for AMC. The only U.S. automaker now running in the red, it lost $18.9 million during the first quarter. Sales of its Alliance and Encore subcompacts fell 41%. To help stem the losses, AMC has hired Actor George C. Scott to be its TV spokesman. It may be Scott's most challenging role since Patton...
...nerve the playwright is aiming for. If life has so disappointed Huck and Tom, the epitomes of hope, how can a spectator not be plunged into pessimism about his own unfulfilled ambitions? The execution is not quite so imaginative as the premise. Tom (John Cullum) and Huck (George C. Scott) are both using assumed names, so it takes a long, creaky while for them to acknowledge each other as they circle the riverbank lookout of Michael Miller's evocatively sylvan set. Their reminiscences are not rich enough: it would help if they had led more complicated lives...
...into a bookish Bible thumper. Tom was a rule bender and a blamer of others, entirely likely to feel self-pity rather than remorse for the sexual crimes Sabath attributes to him. This plausibility is enhanced by masterly acting. Cullum ingratiatingly wheedles, brays and whines as Sawyer. As Huck, Scott combines the stern propriety of the convert to civilization with the lone wolf's fearsome force of nature. W.A.H...
...cast of suspects, though mercifully limited, is boringly predictable and unimaginative. There's the mayor's money-hungry dingbat second wife Malvina, well-jiggled by Anita Morris, and her lover business manager Perry Kerch (Scott Wilson) who spends his time working out in the gym and supervising some of the late mayor's more unsavoury investments, including a dog track and a gambling house-cum-bordello...
...FEST organizer Scott B. Paton '87 initiallysaid yesterday that the SPA had decided on its ownto delay the concert date, but responding toHinkel's comments, he later acknowledged that theSPA pushed back the concert after Face to Faceexpressed concern...