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...last fall, longtime Giant fans could be found across town at Shea Stadium, watching the New York Jets and their $485,000 quarterback, Joe Namath-whose talent for picking apart pass defenses made him a celebrity on the Manhattan nightclub circuit as well as on the field. Stealing the spotlight from Namath is a tall order for a Methodist minister's son who is married, a father, neither drinks nor smokes and makes speeches for the Fellowship of Christian Athletes. But Tarkenton may be just...
...townspeople take turns moving into the spotlight to give an account, not so much of the murder, as of their own thwarted hopes and twisted lives. The 34-year-old deserted wife of a café owner has been sleeping with her handy man, a boy young enough to be her son. Another woman, admired for supporting her ancient, mentally enfeebled mother, actually beats the old lady. Eldritch also has its girlish flibbertigibbets (Susan Tyrrell and Katherine Bruce), its freak, a hunchbacked girl, and its leper, a whiskery derelict whom the local toughs mock with cries of "baaa!, baaa!" because...
...only Negro head coach of a major professional team would have a hard time staying out of the spotlight-even if he did not stand 6 ft. 10 in., sport a beard, and wear an opera cape instead of an overcoat. The glare is especially bright for Bill Russell, 33, because he is in his first season as player-coach of the Boston Celtics, whose eight straight National Basketball Association championships make them the most successful team in U.S. pro sport. The only change he can make in the Celtics is a change for the worse. So when people...
...have one technical quibble. For some reason Bruce West, who does a good job with the set (a complicated system of rooms, steps and a phone booth), insists on switching a spotlight through various colors at strategic moments. Perhaps some electronic gimcrack was broken or perhaps one was being tested. No matter. It is unduly distracting...
...KILLING OF SISTER GEORGE. Frank Marcus turns a harsh spotlight on a radio heroine (Beryl Reid), who plays a selfless nurse on the air-and then performs in private life as a violent lesbian terrorizing all who cross her path...