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Borsalino is Belmondo's best film, and it's coming to the Harvard Sq. Theatre tomorrow. A neatly done and very humorous look at the underworld--the best entertainment around. It's playing with The Hostages, having its American premier here, a taut thriller about a kidnapping in Paris. Starring Bulle Ogier, of La Salamandre fame...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE SCREEN | 7/16/1974 | See Source »

...another tray to put on top of them. The man, who was watching pro wrestling from Orlando, offered to tie the eggs up with string, but Kenny said naw, he had an elastic rope he used for books on the back seat. When we hooked it up, it stretched taut in the center, but the eggs on the sides had to be held down...

Author: By Timothy Carlson, | Title: A Midnight Rider and the Flyin' Florida Omelet | 4/22/1974 | See Source »

This kind of taut traditional entertainment feeds a steady freshet of interest in TV movies. They are not locked in with overly familiar characters the way series shows are; and, given the endless need for new product, producers cannot help but try an occasional novelty, just as the studios did several decades ago when they were obligated to provide a weekly change of bill for their theater chains. Sometimes TV's good ideas do not quite come off, as in Shirts/Skins, in which no one decided whether the intense rivalries generated in a pickup basketball game were a funny...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: The New B Movies | 4/1/1974 | See Source »

Legal Sparring. But then he pulled some taut strings- on it. The President said that he would not allow anyone "to cart everything that is in the White House down to a committee and to have them paw through it on a fishing expedition." Next day his lawyer, James St. Clair, sent a letter to the committee rejecting its request for evidence beyond what Jaworski had acquired. St. Clair complained that the committee seemed to be asking for "hundreds of thousands of documents and thousands of hours of recorded conversations covering the widest variety of subjects." He suggested that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WATERGATE: Pushing Ahead the Impeachment Inquiry | 3/18/1974 | See Source »

Henry Wiggen is a winner-a blond-and-blue-eyed All-America baseball hero, golden, graceful and uncomplicated. Julian Weston is a maggot-pale homosexual prostitute, strung out like a taut wire between self-inflicted denigration and a yearning for clean, well-lighted love. What these totally disparate characters-the one in John Hancock's film Bang the Drum Slowly, the other in English Playwright John Hopkins' Broadway drama Find Your Way Home -have in common is the very uncommon talent of Actor Michael Moriarty, who plays them both. With the release of the film in August...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Uncommon Apprentice | 2/25/1974 | See Source »

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