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...talks did nothing to bring Ireland's Catholic South and Protestant North any closer to union. But they did produce an unprecedented concession from the British government: an invitation to the Irish Prime Minister to participate in tripartite discussions with Heath and Northern Ireland's Prime Minister Brian Faulkner over the critical situation in Ulster...
With Good Reason. Back in 1967, Audrey Hepburn played a blind girl pursued by a homicidal maniac. But in Wait Until Dark, Playwright Frederick Knott used a series of ingenious devices to keep the killer and the audience dangling. In See No Evil, Scenarist Brian Clemens offers no motivations and precious few plot twists. Nor is his head-on harum-scarum approach improved by Richard Fleischer's blunt direction, which favors sudden cuts to broken corpses and sadistic closeups of a girl precipitously tumbling into catatonia. Manifestly, Fleischer is out for only one thing: to inspire sudden fear. That...
That may take some doing. One afternoon last week, TIME Correspondent Timothy Tyler was invited out to the Wilson house for what promised to be Brian's first interview in four years. Brian never came downstairs. "The meeting was a test for him," reports Tyler. "He thought he could do it, but he failed." Brian did manage to phone down to Tyler as he sat in the backyard with Carl. "I'm sorry I couldn't make it down, but I just got to sleep," Brian explained. "Let me talk a while on the phone before...
...that sandbox, back in 1966, that he first wrote Surfs Up in collaboration with Van Dyke Parks (Song Cycle). Though Surf's Up was programmed by Leonard Bernstein on a TV special, Brian soured on the song. It was never commercially recorded, and, so the story went, Brian suppressed all taped copies. Last spring, after a four-year interval, a tape turned up in the Beach Boys' vault. Brian liked it again. "I have to admit, it's not bad," he said. And he rerecorded it for the new album...
Virile Sound. The essential message of Surf's Up-a celebration of the return to childhood-may exasperate mature listeners but seems to have worked wonders for gloomy Brian. His music has a high, soaring, quasi-religious vocal and instrumental character that even the Beatles of Abbey Road could envy. At long last, he may be on the verge of coming out of his house. Brother Carl reports that Brian has pledged to appear at a Beach Boys concert in Manhattan's Carnegie Hall this month...