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Broad Front. According to newsmen Bolles talked to after receiving Adamson's call, Adamson told Bolles that he could link Senator Barry Goldwater and Representative Sam Steiger to land fraud schemes. But there is no credible evidence involving either. Authorities believe that the names were used only as bait to entice Bolles. Of considerable interest to investigators is the role of Neal Roberts, a Phoenix attorney and an associate of both Adamson and Ned Warren, the so-called "Godfather" of Arizona land fraud schemes. Roberts quickly stepped forth with an alibi for Adamson, claiming that the two were together...
...chief reason for this is Rod Steiger, who gives an interpretation rather than an impression of the man who may be the most mimicked comedian of the century. Steiger's makeup is expert; his approximation of Fields' voice and of his unique rhythms, both physical and vocal, is both funny and thoughtful. Steiger obviously wants to resemble Fields enough to be believable, yet avoid making a nightclub turn out of his work...
...boys, instead of showing them for what they were: the most viciously self-destructive circle of drunks in Hollywood history, a darkly tragic group. Worse, the film falsifies many of the known facts about Fields in an attempt to create a conventional rags-to-riches show-biz saga. Even Steiger finally goes soft, hinting that a pagliaccio was hiding behind the bulbous nose and the rasping whine-an insight neither Fields nor his friends are on record as entertaining...
Gable and Lombard, a steamy account of the King's stormy third marriage, will open early this year. So will W.C. Fields and Me, starring Rod Steiger. Mel Brooks is making a silent comedy, while Peter Bogdanovich is about to start work on a talkie set in the silent era called Nickelodeon. Ken Russell, fresh from destroying Liszt, will now have a go at Valentino, casting Rudolf Nureyev as the screen's greatest lover. Recently, Elia Kazan started to film F. Scott Fitzgerald's own Hollywood novel, The Last Tycoon. Even now, a large German shepherd called...
...master's degrees in political science at the University of Wyoming, then went to the University of Wisconsin for additional graduate work. Named a congressional fellow by the American Political Science Association, he moved to Washington in 1968 to work on the campaign of Wisconsin Congressman William Steiger...