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...tin ear for dialogue, but otherwise Catherine Deneuve and her current costar, Manfred, get along fine. "I give him orders," she says, "and, thank God, he has no initiative." To be that way around Deneuve, any man would have to be a robot, which is exactly what Manfred is. In Deneuve's latest film (working title: It's All Dad's Fault), now being shot in Nice, Manfred serves drinks, cleans house and also helps French Actor Claude Brasseur escape from jail. Even though she finds her sidekick's metallic utterances and mechanical behavior...
...script calls for a Dorothy who is 24 and a shy schoolteacher. This is awkward, because if the fantasy is to succeed, Dorothy must be childlike enough to be terrified of witches and wizards, and to talk trustingly with a scarecrow, a lion and a tin man. A woman of 24 who is that innocent should not be teaching school...
...Germany's finest living novelist, Günter Grass has clowned his way to his nation's most serious truths. The Tin Drum and Dog Years are masterpieces of comedy and verbal invention about the culture and history that suppurated as the Third Reich. In other novels, plays and poems, he dealt with the Hitler aftermath of political divisions and haunted affluence. One mark of Grass's success is the uneasiness he caused the average German of his own World War II generation. In a tradition where philosophy and history stand on pedestals of grand abstractions, Grass...
...silent, and there are reports that people in East Beirut are starving. A woman reached by telephone describes what is happening: 'We live in the cellar of our building. There are some nuns with us and they pray, but the bombs keep falling. We finished our last tin of corned beef -one spoonful for each person. There is only half a gallon of water left, but we don't dare go up into the streets. When a dying dog came into our shelter, a boy said he would take it away and bury it. His mother told...
Despite the lingering tokens of prosperity in Vientiane, Laos as a whole is near bankruptcy. The country's foreign exchange earnings, mostly derived from exports of timber, tin and hydroelectric power, total no more than $15 million annually. In a normal year, the government has to spend that amount to buy the 50,000 tons of rice it needs to supplement Laos' lagging grain production. With practically no industry (except for small soap, match and textile plants), most manufactured articles, from fertilizer to earth-moving equipment, must be imported...