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...vote by Israel's Cabinet early last week to dissolve El Al, the country's national airline, sparked the most shocking labor confrontation of many in the carrier's strife-torn history. On Tuesday hundreds of protesting El Al workers stormed the Ben-Gurion International Airport outside Tel Aviv. The demonstrators flattened tires on the cars of El Al officials, ransacked the airline's offices, roughed up newsmen and burned effigies of the members of Prime Minister Menachem Begin's government while shouting, "Begin ben zonah [Begin is an s.o.b...
Saks Fifth Avenue has kindly consented to provide the beluga caviar (4 oz. for $88). Pepperidge Farm has prepared Father's favorite hot Bing Cherry Soup with Burgundy (in a selection of eight cans for $18.95). Hampton Farms has, especially for us, smoked a 9-lb. young torn turkey over hickory embers (only $29.95). English plum pudding ($12) is on its way from Altman's. The wines, all from good old Sherry-Lehmann 's catalogue, will go from Perrier-Jouet Grand Brut (about $20) with the caviar, to Chateau d'Yquern ($90) with...
...crafted to set off the talents of stars who may be big shots in some other medium, but don't know the tricks of the movie trade. In this instance, the victim is Bette Midler, getting by as usual on brass, bounce and breastworks. The perpetrator is Rip Torn, a snake-eyed sneak who has been lifting the hubcaps off other people's scenes for years, but here moves up to capital crime. He may be the last actor left who can get a laugh out of a belch, and the first to get one by throwing...
Jinsed's basic premise is that a petty gambler named Howard (Rip Torn) has somehow managed to put a "jinx" on a young blackjack dealer. Willy (Ken Wahl), and is now chasing him from casino to casino trying to break the bank. Whenever Howard smokes a certain magically lucky brand of cigar, he's sure to win any hand Willy deals him Howard is a rather sleazy character with a seemingly infinite wardrobe of polyester Stetson hats, and this is his first chance...
...Torn nicely captures the brash vulgarly of Howard, but he is only really comfortable after the murder, when, a Howard's corpse, he no longer has to deal with the film's wooden dialogue: immobilized, he wears an unearthly look of relief, Ken Waht plays the macho easy-going Eric Estrada type of guy who seems to crop up in almost every cop and adventure show on T.V. he mumbles his way through his lines adequately, and when the going gets rough, he takes off his shirt to reveal his true assets...