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...Fish Came Out. After three days, said Benjamin Franklin, guests and fish begin to stink. After 109 minutes, this particular Fish proves an intolerable guest. Not that the film is without distinction: it was directed by Michael Cacoyannis (Zorba the Greek). It may also be the homosexiest movie since Modesty Blaise. Two fliers (Tom Courtenay and Colin Blakeley) crash-land their nuclear weaponry on a mythical Greek island and spend the rest of the film in their Jockey shorts playing peekaboo with the villagers. Backing them up are a squad of sylphish soldiers dressed in mufti: the cunningest white booties...
...Mikis Theodorakis, 42, the composer best known for his scores for Zorba the Greek and Phaedra. An avowed Communist and leader of the Red-fronting Lambrakis youth movement, Theodorakis eluded the dragnet that rounded up 6,500 Communists in the early hours of the April 21 coup. The sound of his music bugged the junta, and after Theodorakis was finally nabbed last month, Athens buzzed with reports that the police had tortured or even killed him. Last week the junta put their prisoner on display for foreign newsmen. "I have to tell you two things," said Theodorakis, who was dressed...
...punish Greeks who offend against king, church or junta. In Athens a worker was sentenced to one year in prison for "behaving like a Teddy boy," a tradesman to six months for "disobedience to authorities." Mikis Theodorakis, the noted leftist musician who composed the score for the film Zorba the Greek, last week was sentenced in absentia to 5? months in prison for offending the honor of the royal family. An estimated 150 to 200 Greeks are already behind bars on such charges, and more are arrested each week...
...Zorba the Greek was a splendid hero, but when he tried his hand at lignite mining he was a disaster. That's the way economic things go in Greece, a country that has an annual per-capita G.N.P. of only $530 and ranks as one of Europe's least-developed areas. Hoping to change that situation at long last, the Greek government has now turned to a more modern type of hero for a helping hand: California's versatile Litton Industries...
Litton has been asked to plan and largely supervise an $830 million program to develop tourism, industry and agriculture in the western Peloponnesus and on Zorba's own picturesque island of Crete. A contract signed last month makes Litton the consultant and fund raiser for the first $240 million and 3½ years of the program, with management of subsequent projects to be decided later...