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...ever notice how it's all Monopoly out there?" Jason Staebler asks his brother David from behind the bars of an Atlantic City jail. Now, nearly deserted in winter, long past its honky-tonk glory, Atlantic City survives like a huge, standing game board, residents and random vacationers wandering from Boardwalk to Park Place to Marvin Gardens like tokens moved at an idle throw of dice. It is simple enough, as the Staeblers will discover, to get out of jail. There is no way, though, out of the game...
...memories and fantasies looking for an always elusive epiphany. This odd, irresistibly fascinating film begins with one of his stories. "I promised to tell you why I never eat fish," David says to his radio audience, embarking on a desultory saga about how, years before, he and his brother Jason conspired to kill their grandfather with a piece of breaded sole and become "accomplices forever." The old man is very much alive, of course; David lives with him still, until a message arrives from Jason in Atlantic City: "Get your ass down here. Our kingdom is come...
...hand in Miami Beach were Time Inc. Editor in Chief Hedley Donovan, TIME Managing Editor Henry Grunwald, Senior Editor Jason McManus, and the Nation staff of 16, who were intent on assessing an event that has no real parallel in all the world's governments...
...year when Broadway has been suffering from an acute attack of the blahs, Papp's Public Theater has aroused and moved audiences with such plays as David Rabe's Sticks and Bones, Jason Miller's That Championship Season and Richard Wesley's The Black Terror. In a season when even the tune seems to have gone out of other musicals, Papp's Two Gentlemen of Verona, a high-spirited rock romp, has been a huge success. A kind of joke among his more profit-conscious colleagues a few years ago, Papp...
...three children and a yapping mongrel on alimony checks. Once wed, Wilson is beset by miseries. His stepchildren are a mess. The boy is prey to countless nighttime fears, the younger of the two daughters stammers, and the older displays unmistakable signs of nymphomania. Terry's ex-husband (Jason Robards) visits disruptively. The dog snarls...