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...local cafe. Not much of a kitchen really--it has only a sink, a gas kahve cooker [the so-called Turkish coffee which the Turks generally forego in favor of tea], and an impish and affectionate Turk to go with it, four cracked plaster walls, and a swarm of flies. But boy, am I happy. [The kitten with the black nose is now pulling at my sandal strap.] I came here absolutely famished after exploring a slab of rock that once supported a Byzantine castle, which was hell to find. I had a frightfully meager breakfast at the youth hostel...
Taking Heat. Miller insists that he had to "go for broke" in order to change things drastically. He has steadfastly stuck to that tactic, and hubbub follows him like a swarm of hornets. When he left Massachusetts to head the Illinois department of child welfare, he soon alienated the state's social workers, put the child welfare system into a swivet, and was forced to resign. But Pennsylvania quickly hired...
...colors. Their riot control methods remind one of Australia's early days when in many areas the fashionable sport for the young bloods was to go out and shoot an aborigine. The harvest that Prime Minister Vorster will reap will be one of violence and death as blacks swarm through cities like Johannesburg, aided by Marxist countries whose ideology is able to breed, as it always has been able to, in poverty, misery and oppression...
Logic notwithstanding, studios are increasingly grabbing for the brass ring. Warner Brothers last week began production of Exorcist II, starring Richard Burton. Initial budget: $10 million. Next year Warner will release two new megadisaster flicks produced by Irwin (Towering Inferno) Allen: The Swarm (bees do it) and The Day the World Ended. Each will cost well over $12 million. Paramount has in the works Dino De Laurentiis' remake of King Kong ($16 million or so). United Artists will ultimately release a version of Cornelius Ryan's tome on World War II, A Bridge Too Far, produced by Joseph...
Quick, what's the big trial of national significance going on in San Francisco? Patty Hearst, right? Guess again. While reporters from across the nation swarm all over the heiress's family, friends, lawyers and psychiatrists, five black and Latino men sit chained and padlocked to their chairs in the Marin County Courthouse just 15 miles away . . . They have become known as the San Quentin...