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Most actors worry about what winds up on the cutting-room floor after a film has been shot. Albert Finney, 44 (Tom Jones, Murder on the Orient Express), got the worst over with first. For his role as Multi-millionaire Daddy Warbucks in the film Annie, directed by veteran John...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Apr. 27, 1981 | 4/27/1981 | See Source »

More accurately, it seemed like a scene from Annie, with the failing British Steel Corporation as the orphan child, and the part of Oliver Warbucks played by Ian MacGregor, general partner of Manhattan's Lazard Freres & Co. MacGregor, 67, was hired after nearly a year's search by...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: British Steel Gets a Yank | 5/12/1980 | See Source »

Lucy, who has been a bossy, precocious child for the past 29 years, is now a fallen woman. Or at least about eight months pregnant, judging from an advertisement promoting maternity fashions in Chicago. Quick to defend her honor, United Feature Syndicate, which distributes the Peanuts comic strip created by...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Believe It or Not | 7/2/1979 | See Source »

Though the fare is heavy and perceptive compared with conventional comics, the cartoon paneling cannot, of course, do justice to the complexity of Marxist thought. Del Rio's treatment of the theory of surplus value is little more than a shouting match between a cartoon worker who wants more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Seriocomics | 4/2/1979 | See Source »

Annie opens tonight at the Shubert. One underwhelmed critic described the show as "Oliver in drag," but audiences from New York to London have adored this musical based on the '30s Little Orphan Annie comic strip. American history and political science concentrators should note with interest the portrayal of ultra...

Author: By Troy Segal, | Title: Head for the Hub | 9/28/1978 | See Source »

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