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Terrorist Graffiti. The Palestinians' first targets were some moviegoers emerging from a late-night screening of A Streetcar Named Desire at Tel Aviv's Cinema One theater. Next the fedayeen pitched grenades in the direction of a nearby hall where a wedding reception was in progress. Caught in the attack were the terrified bride and groom, who ran for their lives. As Israeli police returned the fire, the fedayeen ducked into the 28-room Savoy Hotel on Ge'ula Street, where they took hostage a dozen surprised guests. By the tune Israeli paratroopers liberated the four-story...
...director, Elia Kazan earned a niche in theatrical history with considerable help from classic scripts (Death of a Salesman, A Streetcar Named Desire) and talented actors (Marlon Brando, Vivien Leigh, Lee J. Cobb). Kazan's second career in the solitary business of writing has so far resulted in three commercially successful novels that tend to thrash about in alien corn. There is nothing wrong with The Understudy, for instance, that a good script and some believable characters would not help...
Last Tango in Paris, 4, 8:25 p.m.; Streetcar Named Desire, 6:15, 10:45 p.m. (both thru Saturday); Triumph of the Will, Saturday and Sunday at 1:30 p.m.; Happy New Year, 7, 7:45, 11:30 p.m. (Sunday thru Tuesday...
...streetcar conductor in Lewiston, Longley is the model of the self-made man, the kind of person who jogs a mile every morning, needs only three hours of sleep a night, and avows that Ayn Rand is his favorite author. A fervent believer in the virtues of hard work, Longley as a youth labored in a textile mill to support his widowed mother and five sisters and brothers. After graduating from Bowdoin College, he went on to build one of the biggest insurance agencies in the state...
...nostalgic themes as old automobiles-for instance, Doug's Body Shop in Detroit, where diners can consume their filet mignon in a 1951 Packard-a building in Buffalo reconstructed from Mark Twain's old home, and an exquisite old Claremont, Calif., high school. There is also a streetcar manufacturing plant in San Francisco that serves only spaghetti dishes; and a reconstructed Colorado-style mining camp called The Chicago Claim Company, where luncheon menus are printed on land-claim certificates, and the decor features outsize mining pans. The place is, literally, a gold mine...