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WOMEN. Following a long spell of small parts, women actresses at last seem to be coming into their own again. Shooting will soon begin on Judith Rossner's bestseller Looking for Mr. Goodbar, directed by Richard Brooks and starring Tuesday Weld and Diane Keaton. Sissy Spacek, Shelley Duvall and Janice Rule form the trio in Three Women, a film that Director Robert Altman says, somewhat obscurely, is based on one of his dreams. Equally mysterious, although for different reasons, is Demon Seed. In that science-fiction thriller Julie Christie is impregnated-don't ask how-by a computer...
...Carter vowed that his Administration would not let New York City go into bankruptcy. Meeting with Mayor Abraham Beame and New York's Governor Hugh Carey, the President-elect did not spell out what rescue plans he had in mind, but his assurances were expected to encourage banks and unions to help refinance some of the city's onerous debt. Asked for a reaction to the meeting, Carey beamed: "Peachy...
Back in the days when children could spell neither conglomerate nor Nielsen, we thought of sport as courage, competition and manliness. (We couldn't spell macho then either.) Show business was Jack Benny bellowing "Rochester!" and Mickey Rooney groping toward Ann Rutherford, while Judge Hardy, secretly a dirty old man, fantasized from back of camera three...
...young officer, he would not let his seasickness prevent him from standing watch: he simply carried along his vomit bucket to the bridge of the submarine. He fell under the spell of Admiral (then Captain) Hyman Rickover, and that celebrated authoritarian became the second most important male influence in his life. It was Rickover who provided the model of the perfectionist leader, one who seldom handed out compliments...
...beyond belief, Carrie is utterly traumatized by the experience of her first period in the gym shower (as a high school senior, no less) in the opening scene. She cannot find relief from the mockery of her more sophisticated peers at home; a healthy dose of Scripture and a spell of confinement in a cell-like closet is the evangelist-mother's prescription...