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Half-Hour Steal. With an insouciance that curdles the imagination, the producers shoved them in front of the cameras, and in five days filmed a genial half-hour steal of the Beatles' A Hard Day's Night, only they called it The Monkees. "We wanted to keep them natural, as unrehearsed as possible, and give them plenty of room for ad-libbing," says Rafelson. "It all went great: NBC bought the series 24 hours after it saw the pilot and sold it to two sponsors 72 hours later...
Harvard's secondary kept the game close with three interceptions, two by an exciting defensive back named Greg Kundrat who always seemed to be in the right spot. The third was by Jim Higgins, only it was more of a steal than an interception. On what looked like a touchdown pass, Higgins simply separated the receiver from the ball on the way down...
...Alchemist, by Ben Jonson. It is ironic for the Lincoln Center Theater to be doing this play, since the troupe specializes in turning dramatic gold into lead. Some new actors are present, notably Michael O'Sullivan, a mutilatingly funny man. They help to steal the show from Jonson, but pickpocketing a classic is the meanest form of tribute. Body English is slammed at the playgoer, but he never hears the king...
...peace arrangements; at one point, Truman called the whole operation off to smooth the Bear's ruffled fur. Nazi changes of command kept eliminating generals who were sympathetic to Sunrise and replacing them with generals who were not. From Berlin, a counterplot by Himmler, designed only to steal the play away from Wolff, threatened to retire Sunrise to the limbo of lost causes. The generals of the various Nazi commands in Italy fought among themselves over the issue of a negotiated peace, and Wehrmacht tanks once even leveled their guns on Wolff's SS headquarters in Bolzano...
Such nonsense is swept away when a seductive, blonde party intellectual shacks up with him and steals his books. Then she forces the two Englishmen to steal them back from a KGB agent's apartment, after which, naturally, P-G and Manning are kidnaped by the secret police and flung into jail. The book winds up with the two freed from prison and jetting home to London. The implication is that Proctor-Gould is now spying for the Russians. But is he really? Frayn doesn't say. The effect is illogical but somehow appropriate, as it is, perhaps...