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...bound-for-Broadway" production do not even try to enliven the proceedings. Ann Sachs as Lucy, the pale afflicted one, is the first character to appear on stage. She has enough energy to flit about in her gossamer frock--but right off the bat, we can tell she is wan and vapid. Other characters are not much better...
...newspaper, the Post-Courier, which publishes The Phantom in English, not pidgin. This summer, after the fast-growing Wantok moved to a new and larger plant, the Australian-owned Post-Courier decided to assert its exclusive right to the comic strip, and the local distributor pulled The Phantom from Wan-tok. Says Father Frank Mihalic, editor of Wantok: "I don't see any conflict with the Post-Courier. Because of translation problems, we're always behind them." In Australia, the Religious Press Association charged the affair was "one more tragedy to add to Australia...
...Daily earlier this month, the weeds were actually "fragrant flowers." There has been a continuing purge from government positions of radicals associated with Chiang Ch'ing, who have been replaced by veteran bureaucrats linked with Teng. The new party chief of Anhwei province, for example, is Wan Li, the ex-Railway Minister who came under attack in 1967 when he was denounced as one of Teng's bridge partners. Teng himself was excoriated for indulging in this bourgeois pastime and commandeering a railroad car to take his card-playing cronies with him when he had to travel...
These assorted travails have left a visible mark on the Chancellor. His much-admired confidence now seems more like grating arrogance; he seldom flashes his famed toothy grin, and often appears wan and uncharacteristically glum. Says an aide: "He is deeply troubled, nothing goes right...
...plays Han Solo, the cynical mercenary captain of the Millennium Falcon. "I told him: 'You can't say that stuff. You can only type it.' But I was wrong. It worked." The only actor whom Lucas allowed to change anything was Alec Guinness, who plays Obi-wan Kenobi. Originally, old Obi-wan was supposed to start off crazy and then turn into the wise old wizard of Good. Guinness felt that that transition was not right for his method of acting or for the character, and Lucas relented. Now Obi-wan is wise from beginning...