Word: aries
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...thought that grips the playgoer's imagination as he views the courtroom is that apart from the presiding officer, John A. Sutler (Paul David Richards), and Sheriff McKinstry (Bob Ari), most of the people present can only be there through having eaten human flesh...
...basin on the Hudson River at Manhattan's 79th Street. He keeps in touch with secretary and clients by onboard phone. Says he: "My therapy is tinkering. On a boat there's always something to do." There's also always something to do for his son Ari, 13. Says Abramson: "Living here for kids is a real learning experience. They have to learn how to take care of motors, put gas in the engine, disconnect the phone, handle the lines, and a lot more...
...members of the tight-knit international shipping community, they are uncertain what impact the marriage will have on the $500 million Onassis fleet, in which Christina has a 48% interest. (The rest is held by the Monte Carlo-based Alexander Onassis Foundation, which is run by a troika of Ari's cronies.) About 90% of the fleet's tanker business involves the transportation of Saudi Arabian oil. The anti-Communist Saudis may be reluctant to renew their charters in the future and would have no difficulty in finding replacements for the Onassis fleet...
...memorable, it serves the function of making him human, despite his wealth, his international wheeling and dealing, his lusty eye for wenches. Indeed, since everyone who has been in reach of a newspaper over the past 15 years knows in broad outline the later-life stories of Jackie and Ari, the movie's only surprise is the attitude that it takes toward them. It is not sensational or lascivious; it is, strangely enough, rather sweet-spirited. The Greek Tycoon doesn't even have a good decadent party scene...
...indecisiveness under Christina's helmsmanship. Complains a French banker: "She can't concentrate. She'll really get into a subject, but then her mind will get onto something else. She has no follow-through." But others point out that nothing much has really changed, and that Ari himself was a notorious dilly-dallier who would often seem to agree on a deal only to back down at the last moment...