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...part, Wagner kept setting tougher and tougher conditions. He must, Wagner insisted, pick his own running mates. To charges that he would be the captive of Rocky and Rose, Wagner snapped with unwonted acerbity: "I've never been a puppet and I never intend to be a puppet." Repeatedly he proclaimed: "I am a liberal Democrat and always have been." As for next year's gubernatorial race: "I will support a good Democratic candidate...
...last, some G.O.P. county committeemen gagged at having the Wagner candidacy rammed down their throats. New York County (Manhattan) committeemen swallowed passively, but Kings (Brooklyn) refused to submit. So did Richmond (Staten Island). In rowdy Saturday sessions, however, Queens and The Bronx gave their support to Wagner. Rocky and Rose had won, but not overwhelmingly. Still, it was only the first inning of the game, and Wagner had yet to say firmly that he would play ball...
...board a train bound from Marrakech to Casablanca, a jaded American fashion model (Lindsay Wagner) meets up with a moody compatriot (Peter Fonda). She thinks he may be carrying a little grass to ease the boredom of the journey; he wants to be left alone to reflect on tribulations yet to come. "Where were you?" asks the model's travel companion (Estelle Parsons) when she returns to their compartment after being rebuffed by Fonda. "Out of my depth," the model replies...
...Star. Two People looks to be his attempt to get to a smaller, more meaningful scale, but he seems to be still out of touch with the most basic kind of emotional reality. Fonda, consistently underkeyed, and Parsons, forever frazzled, contribute what little the movie has to offer. Wagner, who looks about as much like a high-fashion model as a drive-in carhop, remains throughout a stranger to conviction. · Jay Cocks
High jinks and high Cs reigned supreme throughout the operatic career of the Danish-born heldentenor (heroic tenor). For 24 seasons (1926-50) at the Met, it was impossible to imagine Wagner without "the Great Dane." He sang in more than 1,000 Wagnerian performances-more than three times the total of any other singer-with no hint of diminution of the robust tenor that could swoop from a splendorous high to a deep, resonant...