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...familiar sonorous voice and stately presence never seem quite right in a thriller. Yet at 68, Laurence Olivier is again swapping the stage for the cinema and co-starring with Dustin Hoffman in Paramount's forthcoming spy flick, Marathon Man. Olivier plays the part of a professional assassin and is scheduled to sprint about Manhattan next month in the filming of a chase scene. Such sprightly plans are rather extraordinary for a man who has been fighting a long battle against cancer of the prostate, thrombosis and other serious ailments. Confided Olivier optimistically to a friend last summer...
...then draws from newsreels to document lengthening breadlines, middlewestern duststorms and ragged transients riding freight trains through a despondent land in search of work. Mora uses his selections from Depression vintage cinema to juxtapose reality and fantasy as he pans the gloomy landscape that characterized the era. While he often contrasts the grim reality of life during the Depression with such fanciful films as Gold Diggers of 1933, starring Ginger Rogers, he uses similar clippings to demonstrate a haunting similarity between fiction and fact in the 1930s. Random scenes from King Kong (1932-33), for example, invite a comparison...
Tonight, the Harvard Square cinema gives you Fairport Convention with Sandy Dennis, who's back with the group after a less-than-successful solo career. Fairport Convention still remains a respectable outfit though their current work in no way compares to what they produced in the past. In addition to Fairport, you'll also get a chance to witness one of the more atypical figures in rock, violinist Jean-Luc Ponty. Though his popular following is quite large in Europe, Ponty remains a critic's musician here, though he is played extensively with Frank Zappa and is close to becoming...
Humble Detritus. But incident is the least of Author Woiwode's concerns. He subtitles this novel A Family Chronicle, and the description is apt. The book's rhythm is not that of cinema but of still life. Woiwode scatters memorabilia of the Neumiller clan through 44 separate stories, some of which have appeared alone in such dissimilar magazines as The New Yorker and Mademoiselle. Most of the tales are inventories of nostalgia-the humble detritus of people who, in George Eliot's phrase, "lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs." With rare patience...
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