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...Change of Seasons, Anthony Hopkins plays a glum college teacher having an affair with one of his students (Bo Derek, who is splendid-looking, of course, but whose blankness of eye and manner makes one long to see her admission test). When his wife (Shirley MacLaine) discovers this lapse, she immediately takes up with a young carpenter (Michael Brandon), whose brain has been dulled by an overdose of Consciousness III. Soon they all edgily repair to a country house. There they scandalize the married couple's daughter, who drops by with some problems of her own, and Derek...
William Miles, the Harlem-born writer and producer of the series (who was responsible in 1977 for the splendid World War I documentary Men of Bronze), is obviously in love with his subject. Instead of an ordinary documentary, he has fashioned a kind of oral and visual history, with long interviews with those who remember (including one ancient man who recalls the famous buzzard of '88). Occasionally the interviews take their own good time-and the viewer's-as Miles lets his oldtimers wander too far down history's obscure bypaths...
...Skidmore or a Mount Holyoke it never was. But Colorado Women's College in Denver had improved academically from the finishing school that used to produce Miss Americas (1955 and 1974), splendid skiers and fine wives for cadets at the nearby Air Force Academy. Still, over the past decade enrollment had dropped from 1,100 to 509, and last week the school's debt stood at $5.6 million. President Sherry Manning, 37, a University of Colorado Ph.D. in management science, felt that drastic measures were needed. She stunned the campus by announcing that because of "financial exigency...
...three later Huston films, who lobbied with the Government to liberate Let There Be Light; Ron Haver of the Los Angeles County Museum, who organized the film's first public showing; and Joseph Me Bride, whose barrage of articles in Variety cast light on the film's splendid achievements and sorry history. This week the hour-long documentary receives its theatrical premiere at Manhattan's Thalia theater...
...recalls, "I had suggested that she had a certain adroit coquetry which appealed to middle-aged men." And the time he was deported from Puerto Rico by U.S. authoritie, Greene, 76, has survived professionally for some 50 years by never telling a bad story. Ways of Escape keeps that splendid record alive...