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...first seven pages. Page six has been reserved for a mild stew of short, gossipy items?including last week's tongue-in-cheek rewrite of an Associated Press report that ten people in Argentina have been stung by ?you guessed it?killer bees, and a copy of a telegram sent to Murdoch by Screw Magazine Publisher Al Goldstein asking why his is "the only New York publication you haven't tried to buy? P.S. I have feelings too." This week Murdoch will add two pages of features and plans eventually to strengthen coverage of fashion, business, television and sports?...
...days most papers observe an unwritten rule: Thou shalt not take a poke at another practitioner. Last week, however, one of the nation's biggest dailies, the Los Angeles Times (circ. 1,005,000), threw a haymaker at a smaller paper in nearby Long Beach, the Independent, Press-Telegram. In a rambling 20,000-word account spread over seven pages, the Times accused the Long Beach paper of, among other things...
Neither had the Independent, Press-Telegram, which cried foul with its own Page One story and an editorial the next day. "A bunch of innuendoes," snapped Daniel H. Ridder, editor and publisher of the Long Beach paper (circ. 149,000). Since Ridder's family merged its 19 newspapers into the 16-paper Knight chain last year, the Long Beach daily has lowered its profile in local civic affairs; thus, many of the Times allegations are outdated. But Ridder defends even the previous heavy involvement. Says he: "The newspaper ought to be involved in promoting the community and serving...
Indeed, veteran California journal ists note that the Chandler family, which controls the Times, once dominated the region's Republican Party to much the same extent as the Independent, Press-Telegram is accused of having controlled Long Beach. Furthermore, the I, P-T used its pages to criticize the Chandler family in the 1950s for trying to saddle Los Angeles with a concert hall that would carry the name of Dorothy Chandler but require public financing. (The plan was later altered to the I. P-T's satisfaction.) Was the Times getting even? Or was it trying...
Belmondo's great backlash at the money-grubbing world has palled. We miss the scheming smiles and gleaming winks he projects so well, and even Bujold is having trouble lighting his Don Juan-ish spark. In a very late scene a telegram summons Belmondo to his uncle's deathbed, and he finally receives the chance to take revenge on the skinflint. He forges himself into the old man's will while his uncle helplessly looks on, eating his heart out but too sick to call for help. Yet even here Malle's directorial listlessness--intentional, no doubt, but unendingly strange...