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...Movie Producer Julia Phillips seems somewhat like the leading character in Erica Jong's novel Fear of Flying. Which may be appropriate, since Phillips has bought the screen rights to the ribald bestseller and will start filming the movie version in August. Phillips, 31, who co-produced The Sting with her now estranged husband Michael, shares her rented Beverly Hills home with Actor Gregory Johnson and her daughter Kate, 1%. She is considering Actresses Barbra Streisand, Brenda Vaccaro, Goldie Hawn and more than a dozen others for the leading role of Isadora Wing, but has not made...
...THOUGH THE insect metaphors held over from Korea had not disappeared, they had lost most of their sting. It was so clear that the insects would take care of themselves. Far more serious, under the circumstances, was most papers' inability to resolve their overview even a little, to vary their alarms of struggle and flight with any specifics about what immediately preceded and followed them. For example, why were the refugees running away...
HERSEY'S WRITING is ideally fitted to the novel's content. The short, almost choppy sentences express conversation well, and almost embody thoughts deliberated and forgotten in microseconds. At times, his Hemingwayesque turn of phrase verges on journalism, but even this is effective. Hersey is trying to sting minds with his nightmare world, and the more matter-of-fact he can be, the greater the impact. He puts you in the lines, where it's easy to feel the invasion and massacre of privacy, easy to remember the tensions of shared or walk-through bedrooms, easy to imagine Harvard Square...
...when people across the world are facing disaster like never before, American moviegoers would be bored enough to relish apocalyptic scenes of their own destruction. Anyway, Christmas was a boom. Last year at this time, around when Patty Hearst and the SLA was everybody's talk, papillon and The Sting cranked on at most picture shows and there were no new feature films to speak of except perhaps for The Last Detail, which was nothing too special. But in 1975 It's February today, and two incredibly fine new movies are playing in Boston. Perhaps both A Woman Under...
Captain Peter Baser will hold down the number one slot as he will try to take the sting out of his losses against Princeton and at the Men's Team Championships. Bill Kaplan will follow at the number two post. Dick Cashin rounds out the top three as he tries to replicate his win against the Tigers' third man at Penn...