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...veteran of more than 1,000 Wagner performances, Heroic Soprano Birgit Nilsson, 55, is understandably cautious around the holes, traps, platforms, rising elevators, special effects and other hurdles that wait in ambush on the operatic stage. But last week, as she carefully felt her way through a dress rehearsal for the Metropolitan Opera production of Götterdämmerung, the singer was ensnared by a shaky staircase. As she stepped from a stage platform onto the stairs, the structure collapsed, sending her tumbling four feet to the floor. Hospitalized with a dislocated shoulder, face cuts and multiple bruises, Good...
Serpico is an energetic melodrama, with just enough realistic bite to shine against its current rivals. Its entertainment values hide a sour joke: one of the few heroic stories of our time has been filmed by men who lack their hero's passionate commitment to advance righteous endeavors to the necessary ends...
...trying to help all of us fight inflation by asking for a price rollback instead of following the politicians' advice to pass the huge price increases on to us. What a miscarriage of justice that the present Congress is siding with oil companies and not with these heroic drivers...
...with a nice arrangement of Cole Porter's I Get a Kick out of You; that ex-Football Tackier Alex Karras, on hand to play a homicidal moron, gets in a fight with a horse and fells it with a single roundhouse blow; that Cleavon Little, as the heroic sheriff, has saddlebags by Gucci...
...touting them all, Schonberg strains his expletives and his description. Steinitz, "born lame, heroic above the torso and a cripple below... had a grudge against the world, and the world returned it." Pillsbury "was genuinely admired as a human being as well as one of the chess geniuses...