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...main problem with this play is that all three of the characters are so consistently loco that we become dulled by it. There should be a doorman or a maid or something--someone to set off the shrieking and flyings ashtrays. That, or a tauter script. After the play's rambling dialogues, its climactic scene in which Scooper leaves his blind mother talking to a wheelchair while he and Dierdre run off (to Doubleday?) leaves you cold...
...most expensive films ever made. But the high price tag is for a good cause--a guaranteed audience of devoted trekkies has been waiting for this one for ten years. They're selling reserved seats in most theaters, but if you bribe the doorman, you're bound...
McMullen, a burly man who is wanted by the British for terrorist bombing, first came to the U.S. in 1972 on a false passport. He worked as a doorman-bouncer at Wednesday's, an uptown Manhattan bar with a heavily Irish-American clientele. He bought guns with money embezzled by a barman - as much as $3,000 a week, he claimed. Mostly, McMullen said, he just strolled into gun shops, cash in hand, and bought whatever weapons he wanted, but on occasion the approaches got a bit dicey. Said he: "One night I'm standing at the door...
...account in an interview with TIME. The date, he said, was not April and Powell had not been there; his name had been on an April reservation list but he never showed up. However, said Rubell, "Ham Jordan came one night in June or July. He told Mark the doorman that he wanted to see the basement. There were about a dozen people in the basement at the time and four have come forth and said that they saw him: Mark was one, Johnny C. was another, I was one and another witness-a party person who had been connected...
Working people are moonlighting or putting in overtime, and many wives are seeking jobs. Unable to pay his $220 rent out of the $164 a week that he takes home working five days as a New York City doorman, Benny Lescher now puts in a sixth day as an elevator starter. Charles Ogasapain, owner of the Arlington Candy Co. in Woburn, Mass., cannot afford additional help, because rising costs of labor and materials are chewing up his profits. So he works twelve hours a day himself. Cynthia Bako could not earn enough as a waitress in Portland...