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...Fogg Museum is exhibiting graphic works by Roy Lichtenstein. He's the one whose stuff looks like enlarged comic strips, but, as is always the case in these things, has much more redeeming social importance. Check out the review in yesterday's paper for more details. Through Oct.26...
...satellite, Howard visited a midnight concert given in London by the Bay City Rollers (TIME, Sept. 22), a tepid teen-age group hyped erroneously as the Beatles' successors. A more worthwhile satellite trip to Las Vegas' MGM Grand Hotel exhibited the magic team of Siegfried and Roy briskly turning lions, tigers and panthers into each other and thin air. The evening's worst-called play featured Nonstop Composer Paul Anka accompanying Tennis Star Jimmy Connors in his crooning debut. Jimmy's voice cannot compete with his two-fisted backhand; he had to be helped...
...Roy Wilkins, Executive Director N.A.A.C.P. New York City...
Officially, the fund is administered by eight Teamster officers and eight employer representatives. Four of the Teamsters' trustees have known connections with the Mafia: Frank Fitzsimmons, William Presser, Frank Ranney and Roy Williams. In practice, say federal investigators, just who gets money is determined by the union trustees; they are influenced heavily by Allen Dorfman, once a special consultant to the fund until he was convicted of accepting a $55,000 kickback from a borrower and went to prison for eight months. He was forced to sever his Teamster connections, but he still calls many shots...
...department may be quickly dismissed as amateurish--a hopeless waste of a very large budget, lots of locations and extras, etc. But his scriptwriter is something to be reckoned with--he has made quite a lot of money for pictures like Dirty Harry, Dillinger, Jeremiah Johnson, Judge Roy Bean. And it's terrifying to know that people responded to these films--they play on the most violent and degrading of fantasies. Fortunately The Wind and the Lion was badly directed, and though it has been making money it's not the smash it was cooked up to be, Lucky...