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...dust jacket on The Canfield Decision, offering the most succinct description possible of the novel's author. And he was formerly the nattering nemesis of network television as well. Now neither, Spiro Agnew has been all but inescapable in TV studios lately as he tapes interviews with Dinah Shore, Merv Griffin and Mike Douglas -not as an erstwhile politician, but as a self-promoter of his book about a liberal-leaning Vice President with eyes for the top job. "The real driving need to write The Canfield Decision was making a living," Spiro told Merv, claiming that...
...like poorly aimed arrows. Kubrick evokes 18th century Europe with a historians' eye for detail in his cinematographic version of William Makepeace Thackeray's novel. He succeeds in transporting the viewer to the aristocratic world of the 1760s and stuns us with his well-designed shots of landscapes. But Dinah, the acting! Ryan O'Neal proves three things: first, only one O'Neal can act and her name starts with a T; second, looking pretty is not reserved for leading ladies; and finally O'Neal couldn't act his way out of a paper bag. Ollie Barrett lives. Marisa Berenson...
...decked it out with orchestral preludes, choruses, solos, duos, even a quintet, in a way that indicated he probably knew the works of Weber and Flotow. The spirit of the work, though, hovers somewhere between operetta and masque. The use of ragtime is limited to exhilarating dance finales: Aunt Dinah Has Blowed de Horn at the end of Act I and A Real Slow Drag at the final curtain. Elsewhere one can find a waltz and even barbershop quartet. Infusing everything is Joplin's ear for melody, which made his rags so fetching and regaling...
...smile, and those aphorisms he kept delivering in the movie The Little Prince, Steven Warner, 8, is a seasoned trouper. On a jaunt to Hollywood, Steven took along his bus-driver parents John and Rita Warner and his sister Mandy, 10, to enjoy his fame. In an appearance on Dinah!, he brought down the house when asked what he talked to other kids about. "The usual," he said. "My film." And when Gene Wilder, who played with Steven in Prince, protested, "This boy is just being exploited; he isn't having any fun at all," Steven looked distinctly annoyed...
MIDNITE FRI & SAT: Follow the Boys (1944 film with Dietrich, Fields, Andrew Sisters, Dinah Shore...