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...Anderson Tape's is a standard "big caper" thriller (Topkapi, Rififi) in which a hungry hood just sprung from Sing Sing decides to strip a whole luxury Manhattan apartment house over a Labor Day weekend. He assembles a team of specialists to cut the alarm wires, finger the Klees and terrify any stray remaining tenants. The gimmick is that all the conspirators' haunts are bugged by various government agencies. Though it means that everything from a candy-store pay phone to Central Park itself has to be tapped, almost the whole novel consists of tape-recorded conversations instantly...
This dreadful film is in the same genre as Topkapi and Rififi, but the resemblance stops there. The first half is a how-to-do-it set piece on the art of robbing a football stadium and getting away with the loot. The second half involves the problem, artificially created, of how to split that loot. As leader of the gang, Brown is allowed to take the take home to his former wife (Diahann Carroll). Enter James Whitmore, Diahann's evil landlord. He suspects what's up, but he also knows what he wants: Diahann. "Please," he pleads...
...hottest suspense series, and its fans find in it the same inspired implausibility that characterized The Man from U.N.C.L.E. in its prime. Bruce Geller, 37-year-old film, TV and off-Broadway writer who conceived the whole enterprise, concedes that his original script was basically a paste-up of Topkapi and several other favorite movies. When Hollywood wouldn't buy it, he turned to Desilu. When Desilu proposed a series, he turned nervous, fearing he would run out of ideas-his own or other people's. But he tried, and made it. M:l won four Emmys last...
...THURSDAY NIGHT MOVIES (CBS, 9-11 p.m.). Melina Mercouri and Peter Ustinov in Topkapi...
...excellent aids for appreciating the exhibit. A catalogue includes four readable introductions by scholars on "The Art of Anatolia Until 1200 B.C.," "Early Iron Age, Classical and Roman Empire," "The Byzantine Period," and "The Islamic." A lecture series during December includes discussions of rugs and textiles, architecture, and painting. Topkapi, a film set in an Istanbul palace-museum, will be shown over the next two weekends. Five concerts of native Turkish music will be performed on traditional instruments during December, and recorded tours are available...