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...beginning, but not the end. "He was desperate to have this film work," his wife recalls. "He was like a string that would snap if it were pulled any tighter." Director Hal Ashby, knowing how much he needed assurances, tried to provide them, but in the midst of production could not always summon enough time or energy. Worse, Sellers found the principal location, the Biltmore mansion in Asheville, N.C., cold and depressing in the winter. As usual, he found it impossible to leave his role on the set and walked around inside Chance's deadly placid character all the time...
...Crimson will attempt to snap its losing streak tonight in a tri-meet against UMass and UConn in Storrs, Conn...
...business. TILT is an international language. A disco with ear-numbing banks of speakers and flashing lights is in full shriek at night. In the main courtyard of the Olympic Village, the flags of the I.O.C., the Lake Placid symbol and the 37 countries represented at the Winter Games, snap in the wind against a winter sky. Below, athletes hurry to practice sessions...
...finish-line coverage of alpine skiing. For that task alone, nearly 50 miles of cable were laid to connect 25 cameras on Whiteface Mountain-then patched up when the local wildlife, including a foraging bear, started to nibble on the lines. Getting all the electronic gadgetry installed was no snap. Says Marvin Bader, ABC sports director of special projects: "It's a small town. There's one hardware store, one lumberyard, and for electronics, you've got Radio Shack...
Neil Simon's screen adaptation of his Broadway success Chapter Two takes this touching phenomenon seriously. Simon's central characters, a newly widowed writer (James Caan) and a newly divorced actress (Marsha Mason), snap zingers at each other during a wary meeting, a breathless courtship and a marriage that almost fails before it gets started, conforming to the theatrical convention Simon has created for himself. But they have the good grace to be self-conscious about their verbal twitchiness. They understand there are more important matters at stake here. As a result, the movie is rather blurred...