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...Terminal Man. "The patient is a readout device for the new computer." Cast as that patient in the movie now being filmed, George Segal seems to have bought the fantasy whole. "I'm just passing through the picture," he declared after the movie doctors attached wires to his shaven skull. "What they do to my brain is up to them...
...piles and shelves of musty, dust-covered, unalphabetized books, and their romanticism goes wild. Visions of Bloomsbury circles and artistic Jamesian bookbinders flit through their minds. No doubt they imagine the booksellers themselves -- the tall, thin man with the distinguished-looking, white goatee, and the heavier-set, clean-shaven man with the ever-present pipe--as the central figures in a coterie of important literary Bostonians...
Victoria: even today the name conjures up a glacial and portly figure swathed in black mourning, the aged face set in its pale exophthalmic stare of hauteur as she proceeds (for monarchs do not walk) across some shaven lawn at Balmoral. She is a living monument, testy, imperious, not amused. When the old die we remember them as old, and so it has been with Queen Victoria...
...than big names. While Oui goes its less than weighty way, Playboy is undergoing some subtle changes, becoming both sexier and more serious. Its new executive editor, up from the ranks, is Arthur Kretchmer, 31. Though only three years older than Carroll, Kretchmer seems of another generation-lithe, clean-shaven and as elegantly tailored as the men in the Playboy clothing ads. "The magazine has grown up," said he. "We have a serious concern for the way the country is going, and a concern that we also entertain ourselves." Thus Playboy's August issue contains an uninhibited color...
Paul Hecht is the current Antony, Young and smooth-shaven in Caesar, Hecht appears graying and bearded in the sequel, where he ages from 43 to 53. He looks fine in both plays. Vocally, however, he is unconvincing in Caesar. He is on the whole more persuasive in the second play. But in 22 scenes--and Hecht is not able to sustain his performance throughout. He nevertheless has some admirable moments--such as the nicely ruminative "There's a great spirit gone" passage; the speech beginning, "O sun, thy uprise shall I see no more and the point when...