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...tricks to open in Las Vegas. "I've never figured out why we work so well together, except that we both laugh at exactly the same time," says Coca, sixty-fiveish. Caesar, 55, is optimistic about resurrecting old skits like the satire in double talk called "The Bicycle Thief." Says he: "Don't forget. There's a whole new generation out there. For them, it will be the first time...
...country-and-western star who hears the piece when he drops in on the pen to cut a concert record (as many such singers do) in an authentic environment. Paroled, Fonda sets out to claim credit and royalties for his creation, and is falsely accused of wounding the thief in a scuffle over the matter. He then falls in with Tina (Susan Saint James), who has learned most of the music business's sharper angles as an underpaid back-up singer and who dreams up a neatly ironic scheme to get Fonda...
Those of us who have been poor know what nonsense it is to believe that having little makes one a thief. Creating reasonable motives for unreasonable people only serves to goad them...
...raising even a minor caveat about this engaging, low-key, low-budget movie, full of nice people, bouncy car chases, vroomy racing sequences. Scott is played with a sort of quizzical intelligence by Richard Pryor in a performance very different from his equally effective role as the jivey thief in Silver Streak. There is about Pryor, and the picture as a whole, both earnestness and the sense to throw it away; though if you stop to think, Scott's career-even if it was not precisely as set forth in the film-required even more courage than Robinson...
...thieves. Most authorities agree that computer owners must install more elaborate security measures. Says one: "Cracking a computer system's defenses is about as difficult as doing a hard Sunday crossword puzzle." One computer, protected by a five-digit code number, was illegally entered in minutes when the thief ordered the computer to begin trying every one of the 100,000 possible combinations. But tighter security would cost both money and time. Says Robert Courtney of I.B.M. "If you're running thousands of transactions a day, you don't want to spend ten seconds or so every...