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Another film about a pair of lovable oldies in the twilight of their days, starring two Hollywood legends who had never worked together before. Detect a trend here? From the same sentiments that poured forth On Golden Pond (box office to date: $118 million) comes another tear-duct wringer, called Right of Way, with Bette Davis, 74, and Jimmy Stewart, 74. In the made-for-cable TV movie, due out next year, Davis is stricken by a terminal illness, and Stewart, not wishing to continue alone, decides to end his life too. The match-up of the two stars seems...
Indeed, in our era of carefully crafted images, these electronic inadvertencies and other unmasked asides carried out of the White House by listeners form a valuable body of presidential lore. So often they are flashes of truth in the twilight world of political dialogue...
Outside the Kensington house is a Britain in social twilight. The sun is setting on this pinchpenny welfare state; what follows is a long night of petty anarchy. Ironies and animosities collide everywhere: on a quiet street, a cat defiantly arches its back at a small dog leashed by its owner, even as the local lads shout, "Go back to Poland!" at the uncomprehending laborers. At an intersection, fenders graze and tempers flare. In a supermarket, a woman in a fur coat filches consumer goods the Poles could neither find nor afford back home. (Her thievery gives Nowak the inspiration...
Many other acts of corporate espionage fall within a legal twilight zone. Employees who migrate from one firm to another, for example, are a major source of leaks. But since no law prevents a person from carrying ideas and information in his head, companies can do little to stop the flow of facts. Their only legal recourse is a requirement that workers sign nondisclosure statements, backed up by the threat of court actions if the agreements are violated...
...involved in the business of moviemaking. Eventually, though, the artist must return home chaste and chastened. The climax of this two-hour 20-minute odyssey is a series of ecstatic helicopter shots over Lower Manhattan. It is a refreshing vision-like a crème de menthe sipped at twilight in the Windows on the World, 107 stories above the only dream isle our moviemaking Prospero could live in for long or forever...