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...despite the critical catcalls over his first movie, he's still in there cranking away. The latest is a flick about a paranoid film director, played by old Norm of course, with a sharp little subplot about a bunch of male prostitutes. How's that for a takeoff on Belle de Jour? Beautiful. So there they were, Mailer and about 100 of his pals, out on Long Island shooting some scenes and pow!-Norm got into a fight with Actor Lane Smith and broke Smith's jaw. Next day, Mailer and Actor Rip Torn were doing...
...hour tieups. One frustrated Detroit-bound passenger decided to drive instead-and almost beat the plane. An English tourist in Los Angeles sampled U.S. airline hang-ups and threatened to take a ship home through the Panama Canal. A pilot flying from Bermuda to New York advised passengers on takeoff-accurately, as it turned out-of his three-hour flight plan: "Two to get there and one to circle." American Airlines reported that the previous week's average 88-min. delay at Kennedy rose last week to one day's average...
...frankly, turned out to be roomier and more comfortable than tourist in most European and some American airlines. The six-across foamrubber seats had arms that lifted to provide a little extra room; pulling down the translucent smoked-plastic window shades was like putting on dark glasses. Soon after takeoff, the stewardesses came down with refreshments-tea from a family-sized aluminum pot, fruit juices, mineral water and, of course, vodka. Because it was an inaugural flight, there were quantities of red and black caviar, commemorative bronze medallions and favors-Dior's Diorissimo for the ladies, Eau Sauvage...
...answer to this will be tried by Los Angeles as part of a $500 million expansion program. The city's airport authority foresees satellite airports located no more than 150 miles from International Airport. Travelers would go to the satellites, be ferried by short-takeoff or vertical-takeoff planes to International to catch their longer flights to someplace else. Oakland Airport Manager Glenn A. Plymate has a more advanced idea. He thinks that industry should make such communications as telephone and television so sophisticated that businessmen could conduct nearly all of their business in the office and would hardly...
...important repertory group, the In dependent Theater, decides to produce Maxudov's novel as a play. All goes well until the great director Ivan Vasilievich-an obvious takeoff on Stanislavsky-gets hold of the script. He is an autocratic dramacide whose ears reject all utterances not made by himself. He has a few suggestions for Maxudov's play: the hero must be stabbed, not shot; the sister must be rewritten as a mother, and so on. Maxudov refuses to make the changes and sadly returns to the Shipping Gazette...