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...maintain this reputation in her unseeing eyes supply most of the complications. He finally acquires $1,000 for which he is promptly and unjustly jailed. When he emerges she has regained her sight by the aid of the thousand. As the film fades she recognizes in the ragged helpless vagrant the wealthy prince she dreamed about in darkness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema 1931: CITY LIGHTS with Charlie Chaplin | 10/5/1983 | See Source »

...analyst, he is not reflective about himself. One wondered as he talked how much he saw of his own weaknesses. "I'm my own agent now," he said, "not someone else's advocate. I've tested myself. I went out for two years like a national vagrant, learning, changing, to see if I had what's necessary to lead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mondale: I Am Ready Now | 4/18/1983 | See Source »

...Wren's way. Wren is so determinedly self-destructive that it becomes hard to care about her fate. Nonetheless, Berman does her best to bring this tough, tart Irma la Douce to life. She and Brad Rinn, as a naive Montana boy who offers Wren vagrant hope of regeneration, snipe amusingly at each other, as if they were the Shirley MacLaine and Jack Lemmon of the Lower East Depths...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: To Be Young, Gifted and Broke | 3/14/1983 | See Source »

Exegetes of the Bond canon can debate the weighty matter of which movie is gospel and which apocrypha. Octopussy is based on the title of an Ian Fleming novelette-like most Bond movies it makes only vagrant nods to the original plot-and is supervised by Albert ("Cubby") Broccoli, who has produced or co-produced all but one of the previous Bonds. Never Say Never Again, based on the original story for Thunderball, is produced by Jack Schwartzman, a lawyer and movie executive who acquired the rights after a complicated set of maneuvers. Schwartzman also managed to lure Connery...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: James Bond Meets His Match | 11/1/1982 | See Source »

...whiny oddball crew assembled in Angels Fall is not without its vagrant appeal, though the play's title is pretentious. As ill chance has it, the characters are immured in a New Mexico mission house on a false atomic-emergency alert. There is a rich widow (Tanya Berezin) who has purchased a potential Wimbledon champ (Brian Tarantina) for off-court recreation. There is an Ivy League professor (Fritz Weaver), broken in mind, health and will, who has reached the conclusion that teaching is a fraud. His much younger wife (Nancy Snyder) is as smarmily supportive as she is unbearably...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Windbags Inc. | 11/1/1982 | See Source »

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