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...than his other films. In his new movie Pryor plays a sometime con, forced by his parole officer to drive a bus from Philadelphia to the State of Washington if he wishes to avoid a return to jail. The passengers are the lawman's fiancée (Cicely Tyson) and a group of variously troubled, and variously adorable, children, whose orphanage has been closed and who seek a home on a farm owned by Tyson's aunt and uncle. From the moment the antique vehicle sputters out onto the turnpike, one knows what is going to happen...
That plot would be serviceable enough if the incidents that mark the cross-country passage were fully exploited for comedy or suspense, or if any of the characters were allowed to stray from their totally predictable path. And surely an actress as talented as Tyson should be given some material that would show her as something more amusing than Miss Priggy...
...political comer who weds Constance Wei-don (Morgan Fairchild), the snooty illegitimate daughter of Whorehouse Madam Lute-Mae Sanders (Stella Stevens) and Millowner Claude Weldon (Kevin Mc Carthy), who is married to the patrician Eudora Weldon (Barbara Rush), whose affair with the town's newspaper editor, Elmo Tyson (Mason Adams), may have produced teen-age Skipper Weldon (Woody Brown), who aims to elope with Waitress Annabelle Troy (Dianne Kay), who dies in a fire at Claude's mill that was planned by Truro's venal sheriff, Titus Semple (Howard Duff...
Scheduler Chuck Tyson wants to put an item on the agenda for Reagan's visit this week. 'Let's go over it,' Meese says, putting on his glasses. Then he spots an old friend wandering in the hall. 'Jim,' Meese calls out, grabs his arm and introduces him around. Every conversation starts with a pleasantry. Often a visitor, who has carefully planned the quickest way to say what he needs to say, is disarmed...
Chalk up another true-to-life role for Actress Cicely Tyson. She has already starred in television biographies of Abolitionist Harriet Tubman and Mrs. Martin Luther King Jr. This time Tyson plays a Chicago superteacher, Marva Collins, in a TV movie to be aired next fall. Collins has coaxed children of Chicago's rundown Garfield Park area from near illiteracy to discussions of Roman history and Michelangelo. She also coached Tyson in classroom technique, and gives the actress high marks as a student. Says Collins: "Cicely takes her acting as seriously as I take my teaching...