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King of Hearts. The Central Cinema has issued a release claiming that as this flimsy, forgettable, escapist wisp of a movie enters its fifth year it becomes the world's longest running picture in one theater. The Guiness Book of World Records, however, reported in 1969 that a theater in Egypt had been showing Me Tarzan, You Jane since September, 1949. So there...
...time the results of the Watergate conspiracy trial interrupted the escapist football reveries of a scandal-weary public on New Year's Day, the essential details of the nation's worst siege of politically motivated criminality had long been distressingly familiar. Yet the soundly based judgment of a Washington federal jury carried a ring of authority and finality that seems certain to sound a warning into the future. The message from the jury of twelve citizens was clear: no matter how powerful their position, officials entrusted with shaping and enforcing the nation's laws cannot violate those...
...replica of a 1930 calendar issued by the Peters Cartridge Co., now a division of Remington, perhaps because of the current fascination with the entire decade of the '30s. For instance, art deco will again be all the rage in 1975, just as it was in 1930, and escapist movies are making a comeback. So far, Remington has sold 8,000 copies of its calendar at $4 each, and orders are still coming in for the vintage specimen that bears a grand magazine-art painting of a hunter and mountain lion, eyeball to eyeball. For the Depression buff...
Sales of record albums and sheet music are holding firm, however. The Broadway theater is prospering: at mid-November, box office receipts for 1974 totaled $20.9 million, up from $17.2 million the year before. And movies offering escapist fare, like Earthquake and Airport 1975, are pulling in money as they have not done since the advent of television. Variety projects 1974 receipts of $1.65 billion, a shade below the 1946 record of $1.69 billion. Says Jack Valenti, head of the Motion Picture Association of America: "When people are anxious and fearful, they long for the dark comfort of the movie...
...sign soliciting actors for a musical production of The Wizard of Oz at Dunster House is the final straw: the Harvard theatrical community has gone preternaturally escapist this year. With the exception of a planned Adams House production of Medea--recently scrapped because of lack of interest--and a Winthrop House production of The Plain Dealer, the other House selections, Leverett's Applause and Kirkland's Hay Fever, are marked by unusual frivolity. Add to these plays the usual Hasty Pudding show (this year reincarnated as Keep Your Pantheon) and the semiannual Gilbert and Sullivan operetta, and we have what...