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to its audience. That contempt, in v
turn, makes the audience want the F
film to fail, which it does in every t
sense of the word. a
Roger Moore heads the in- t
ternational (read has-been) cast as a
a Nazi camp commander who joins J
five prisoners (Elliot Gould, David r
Niven, Stefanie Powers, Richard (
Roundtree and Sonny Bono) and a 1
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opens the 1979-60 USC Showcase Thea
21-23 in Longstreet Theatre.
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his father and is estranged from
family, as well.
The reason for the alienation lies
James' past, but after years of psychi
he still cannot remember his chilc
home brings ominous recollections
shed, the site where the mystery bej
James' father is dead, his mother
reveal the secret to him.
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1) themselves and (2) some art
reasures from a nearby
nonastery on Mt. Athena.
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iharm (which Moore usually
ixudes) would have gone a long
vay in making such an implausible
)lot seem less ridiculous, but ail of
he actors try so hard to stand out
igainst the Greek landscapes that
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irrived three nxocths early,
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as if his life depended on his being
able to squeeze in at least one
whirling aerial shot every five
minutes. He used that same
technique to good effect in the
underrated The Cassandra
Crossing, but there he was
photographing a moving train.
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Escape to Athena should have
been titled Vertigo, because that's
the only thing one gets out of seeing
it.
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age of full-length religious dramas,
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re short, one-act kinds of pieces
out the regular church time."
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bed and in a role originally written
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Whose Life Is It Anyway, which
author Brian Clark will extensively
rewrite, a spokesman for
the hit British comedy said
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in a London hospital bed, pleading
for the right to die.
The new version has Moore
as an American woman in the
same plight. She'll appear in the
show here for eight to' 10 weeks,
then possibly reprise the role in
Los Angeles and San Francisco,
the spokesman said.
Moore hasn't appeared on
Broadway since 1966, when she
was in a musical version of
Truman Capote's Breakfast at
Tiffany's. It never officially
opened, closing after four preview
performances.
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