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...rates on Oct. 1, they will decline by 10% more next July 1. Thus many financial consultants are now telling their clients to defer the receipt of year-end income, if possible, until early next year so that the money will be taxed at the lower 1982 rate. Said Ken Treat, a regional director of H & R Block tax advisers: "Payments for rents, dividends, loans, salaries, bonuses and all flexible income should be delayed until after January 1982." Taking a bit of its own advice, H & R Block will distribute its fourth-quarter dividends, which are normally sent out this...
...overall dramatic structure and even much of the dialogue are almost exactly the same. But the emotional effect of the screen version of Whose Life Is It Anyway? is quite the opposite of the play on which it is based. One left Brian Clark's drama feeling that Ken Harrison, the promising sculptor whom an auto accident had turned into a quadriplegic, was tragically correct to insist, against all the established medical and legal verities, on being allowed to die. One leaves the movie feeling that he is tragically wrong in that determination...
...Ken was originally played on the stage by Tom Conti, an actor of great vulnerability-not a victim, surely, but a less abrasive individual than the film's Richard Dreyfuss, and someone who could more readily be imagined preferring death to a life of immobility and dependence. Dreyfuss, by contrast, seems to bustle while flat on his back, and it is almost impossible to believe that in the end he would not opt for life, however constricted it might...
This is particularly true in the context Director Badham has created for him in the movie. Onstage the sculptor never moved from his bed, and his confinement powerfully reinforced the pathos of his condition. In an obvious attempt to make his movie move, Badham insists on getting Ken up and stirring in a wheelchair at every logical opportunity. But this continual scooting about in hospital corridors undercuts Ken's arguments for being allowed to die, for it illustrates how much he could participate in life with a little help from his friends. One can never entirely reject his arguments...
Cassavetes is at his saturnine best in this role, and Christine Lahti is fine as a more sympathetic M.D. Two other supporting performances, both offcast, are emblematic of the care with which Whose Life has been made. One is by Bob Balaban as Ken's attorney. This is the third time this year that Balaban has played a lawyer (Prince of the City and Absence of Malice are the others), but the slick prosecutor of his earlier outings has here given way to a stammering humanism. The other is by Ken McMillan, the vulgarian of True Confessions and Ragtime...