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Conquering cinemaspace is getting to be old hat for Christopher Reeve. Hanging his cape in the telephone booth temporarily between Superman and the upcoming Superman II, Reeve does it again as an ordinary playwright in a romantic saga called Somewhere in Time...
...some people only had time for death. But David Halloran, a derring-do American pilot, and Margaret Sellinger, a proper British wife, were special. David and Margaret had time for everything: for love, for death, for sex and, most of all, for tea. Hanover Street is the tear-dripping saga of this couple's tea-sipping romance in war-torn Europe. It is the kind of big-screen romance they just don't make any more. Why Columbia Pictures bothered to produce Hanover Street is the biggest mystery to cloud that company since the departure of David Begelman...
Mirabell: Books of Number takes what began as a baroque saga and amplifies it to an epic. The new book again offers Merrill, Jackson and a Ouija board. The place is their house in Stonington, Conn., the time the summer of 1976. Ephraim reappears, although vastly overshadowed by the band of dark creatures urgently seeking the poet's attention. They are the fallen angels, now reduced to minding the machinery set in motion by God, whom they call Biology. As the enspirited cup moves among the capital letters on the Ouija board, their plea is spelled out: FIND...
...conspired to violate federal banking laws in the course of getting some $20 million in unwarranted loans for himself, family and friends. He is also charged with making false statements in his financial records and willfully misapplying bank funds. The long-expected indictment added no startling revelations to the saga of Lance's financial maneuvering-and it did not in any way directly involve President Carter-but the 71-page document portrayed in relentless detail the foundationless house of credit that Bert built...
...this dire saga, Polsky has fashioned a grim drama about the existential anguish of last resorts. The play is fascinating even when its revelations are most appalling. Presented at off-Broadway's Hudson Guild Theater, Devour the Snow differs markedly from the spate of terminal situation dramas now in vogue in that it does not possess a moment of comic relief. Polsky means his play to be harrowing...