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...Gypsy Moths is Frankenheimer's latest and most clinical conjugation of courage, a brooding tale of three stunt parachutists bound by the brotherhood of danger. Rettig (Burt Lancaster) is a moody enigma who gets his kicks by pulling his rip cord at the last possible moment. Browdy (Gene Hackman) looks like something out of Sinclair Lewis, a perspiring, frenetic showman who goes to confession before every jump. Malcolm (Scott Wilson) is a kid trying to challenge the deadening effects of a loveless, lonely childhood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Conjugation of Courage | 9/5/1969 | See Source »

SATURDAY NIGHT AT THE MOVIES (NBC, 9-11 p.m.). Barbara Stanwyck and Burt Lancaster have a communication problem in Sorry, Wrong Number...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Jul. 4, 1969 | 7/4/1969 | See Source »

Divorced. Burt Lancaster, 55, onetime acrobat turned Oscar-winning actor (Elmer Gantry); by Norma Marie Lancaster; on grounds of cruelty; after 22 years of marriage, 5 children; in Santa Monica, Calif...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Jul. 4, 1969 | 7/4/1969 | See Source »

...candidates on TV just before the runoff. His questioning of Bradley was harsh; to the mayor, Reddin was uncommonly sweet. Yorty, meanwhile, was twanging the only string left to him. "To elect Tom Bradley," he said at one point, "would be an invitation to violence in this city." Burt Lancaster campaigned for Bradley; Yorty called the actor a "militant extremist." John Wayne hailed the mayor as the man needed in these "dangerous times." Ignoring the fact that Bradley drew support from such respectable, centrist sources as the Los Angeles Times, the Democratic national leadership and Republican Congressman Alphonzo Bell, Yorty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Los Angeles: Bitter Victory | 6/6/1969 | See Source »

...judges themselves are unfamiliar with the legalities of the welfare system." To Burt W. Griffin, OEO's director of legal services, the center "has helped to build the intellectual foundation for a whole new area of law -poverty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Welfare: Doing Something Relevant | 5/9/1969 | See Source »

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