Word: sleepers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Royal Shakespeare Company's Sherlock Holmes settled in as enduring successes than Americans hit back with All Over Town and what has turned out to be the season's hottest ticket, Bernard Slade's exercise in extra-conjugal domesticity, Same Time, Next Year. But the sleepers of the season-indeed, the main reason the season itself was a sleeper-were the revivals. Pirandello's The Rules of the Game and Congreve's Love for Love drew enthusiastic audiences; so did Cat and then Gypsy with Angela Lansbury. It was their success that signaled how theater...
Unsexy Billy Rose. This week he starts work on Sam Peckinpah's Killer Elite, then he may appear in Francis Ford Coppola's The Apocalypse. It is only three years since he appeared in the sleeper Brian's Song and then exploded with the intensity of a young Jimmy Cagney to become a star in The Godfather. Now, after Cinderella Liberty, The Gambler, Funny Lady and the upcoming sci-fi drama Rollerball, he is one of the five top box office draws in the country...
...with the Golden Gun, 3:50, 7:35; Sleeper...
Bananae, Friday through Sunday, Feb. 14-16, 7:30 and 11 p.m. (no late show on Sunday); Sleeper, 9:15 and 12:30 (no late show Sunday...
...sardonic Finch, includes some always reliable character types (Griffith, Hayden, Graham Crowden, Patrick Magee, George Coulouris), and Miss Runacre, a skillful actress, who looks smashing into the bargain. The Last Days of Man on Earth, fractured and funny, is an authentic curiosity. Pace Woody Allen, it is a true sleeper, a movie both of substantial flaw and surprise. When one of the scientists announces with pride that the group has "the best brains in Eu rope working for us," and when it is shown just what he means, Allen would recognize a kindred anarchic spirit...