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...charges of "kickbacks" and "rip-offs of the American people" spread alarm far beyond the targeted oil companies. Says Irving Shapiro, chairman of Du Pont: "I regret that the President seems to have been taken in by the argument that the oil industry should be made a public villain. I have to speculate that [Media Adviser] Gerald Rafshoon told him there are votes in doing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Carter vs. Corporations | 5/28/1979 | See Source »

...Denholm Elliott, who offers a fastidious portrait of a typically down-and-out British colonial, the actors do little to help the proceedings. Gazzara is fairly blameless, given his flat role, but the miscasting of his con-man nemesis is a disaster. Had a strong actor played the villain, who recalls Harry Lime in The Third Man, Saint Jack might have had some tension and dramatic heft. Instead, the director has placed himself in the role and then played it tepidly. No doubt it is healthy for Bogdanovich to be adventurous, but, for now, his new directions all appear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Odd Man Out | 5/21/1979 | See Source »

...going to jump at the administration's throat, because I'm not convinced the University is a villain," he added. "The University's deprecation of the department is supported by the views of the students who refuse to take our courses--if more white students took our courses, the University would find it necessary to support us," Cudjoe said...

Author: By Alan Cooperman, | Title: Cudjoe Speaks on Afro-Am Department | 4/11/1979 | See Source »

...There isn't any villain here," says an authoritative Post insider. "Don isn't the villain. Ben didn't get Phil. Meg didn't get Phil." Adds a Post editorial writer: "He was just in a rut. The writers thought he had grown stale. It was a question of getting more zip into things...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Soapbox Derby | 4/9/1979 | See Source »

...better. Andrea Eisenberg as Natalie Yellowbud is disarmingly charming. Eisenberg is the perfect airhead, from the flower-in-the-hair Nature's Child look to the shit-eating grin. Amy Acquino as Maureen Bad complements Eisenberg very well. Cast against the blond frizzy dumb-dumb, Acquino makes a perfect villain; eyes drifting to the sky, slinking on the edges of the stage, and scheming her way through the show. Her solo number "I'm a Bitch" is probably the best of the evening...

Author: By Robert O. Boorstin, | Title: This Way to the Egress | 3/15/1979 | See Source »

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