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DIED. John D. Rockefeller 3rd, 72, philanthropist and patron of the arts, and the eldest of the five sons of Oil Tycoon John D. Rockefeller Jr.; in a car crash near the family's estate in Pocantico Hills, N.Y. (see NATION...
...Farnsworth, who has just been poisoned by his paranoid wife (played by the zaftig Dyan Cannon) and her lover, Farnsworth's eager-to-please private secretary, (Charles Grodin, the lovable shiksachaser who woos and wins Cybil Shepard in The Heartbreak Kid). Farnsworth turns out to be a particularly loathsome tycoon as he alternately comes under attack from both his adulterous wife and scheming secretary and from enviornmental protection groups protesting his multinational's unsafe and exploitative practices...
...Allbritton, the feisty Texas tycoon who bought the paper in 1974, pumped in millions of his own money to keep it afloat. Allbritton had planned to stay on as the Star's publisher for at least five years. However, last month he decided to leave the paper, to avoid possible conflict of interest problems over his ownership of WJLA-TV, a lucrative (estimated value: $100 million) local ABC affiliate that is up for license renewal with...
...June is here, junk movies are busting out all over. Capricorn One is the first decent one of the lot: it kills two hours with a breathless progression of incredible plot twists and daredevil aerial stunts. Even at its silliest-which is quite silly-this thriller makes The Greek Tycoon seem like a slow yacht to China. At its best, Capricorn One almost matches the trashy highs of Coma, the junk movie of the year to date...
...firing line here are two mettlesome protagonists. Barbara Undershaft (Janet Amos), a major in the Salvation Army, proudly marches under its motto of "Blood and Fire" and does the Christian God's goodly work among the poor. Andrew Undershaft (Douglas Campbell), her munitions-tycoon father, marches under the maxim of "money and gunpowder." And yet this merchant of death is an apostle of life. His argument to Barbara is that he feeds and houses his workers so that they can find their souls, while she drugs the poor with a soup-kitchen dole...