Word: semis
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...wonder, then, that the Cannes Festival is a perfect subject for Director Michael Ritchie, a satirist who has previously assaulted such institutions as competitive sports (Downhill Racer), beauty pageants (Smile), political campaigns (The Candidate) and est (Semi-Tough). For his new film, An Almost Perfect Affair, Ritchie went to the 1978 festival to record the goings-on in all their vulgar glory. He eavesdrops on the manic deal making that transpires daily on the Carlton Hotel terrace, the pretentious black-tie screenings, the endless parade of female pulchritude for commercial purposes. Such real-life luminaries as Rona Barrett, Edy Williams...
McCue--wimpy, paranoid and afflicted with a terminal semi-stoop in all his roles-- also directs Beyond the Fringe, without any noticeable problems. The only minor quibble, probably inherent with this kind of material (as in Monty Python and Saturday Night Live), lies in the skits' occasionally flat endings. Monty Python just switches to a cartoon when it can't find a way to finish a routine and there's always the applause sign for Saturday Night Live. Beyond the Fringe doesn't have these options...
...unit in Milan, "kneecapped" a TV news editor in Turin and similarly wounded a local Christian Democrat official in Genoa. Bombs have demolished a Milan police station and two Rome offices of the neo-Fascist Italian Social Movement. Then there has been the re-emergence of the Autonomisti, a semi-clandestine amalgam of Marxist student organizations...
...singles, both Horne and Kirsch fought their way to the semifinals. Horne then succumbed to the Yale skipper, big Brad Dressler, in the "B" semi's, 6-2, 6-3. Kirsch's 11-match unbeaten string came to an end in his semifinal loss to the eventual "C" division winner. Dartmouth's Mark Jeffrey...
...unseeded Crimson doubles pair of Libby Pierpont and Sally Roberts sparkled en route to a semi-final confrontation with top-seeded Tiger duo, Kris Kinney and Anne Renfrew. In what Crimson coach Peter Felske described as a closer match than the score indicates, Roberts and Pierpont succumbed...