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...movies include Born Innocent and Death Be Not Proud, the series plunks us into the middle of a small Nebraska community (much of the film was shot near Lincoln) and a cross section of citizens trying to cope with their repressive new society. Devin Milford (Kris Kristofferson), a former antiwar activist and candidate for President, has just been released after six years in a prison camp. Returning home, he finds his proud but disillusioned farm family hanging on to the last vestiges of their dwindling land. A boyhood friend (Robert Urich) has become a county administrator and, almost against...
...move to Hollywood a year later, he edited Soldier of Fortune magazine and unofficially trained Nicaraguan contras. Good-humored political arguments raged between Dye and Stone, who called each other "John Wayne" and "the Bolshevik." Dye is not concerned that many, including Stone, see Platoon as an antiwar film: "My hope is that it will encourage America not to waste its soldiers' lives in wars that it is not willing or able to win." That theme is further explored in one of Dye's current projects: a screenplay based on his last foreign tour, with the ill- fated U.S. Marine...
...shouted at the ! pickets, "If I had my way, the CIA would pick you all up and that would be the end of it!" He did not say what else he wanted for Christmas. Many editorial cartoonists did. Some 100 of them, including eight Pulitzer prizewinners, are drawing antiwar newspaper cartoons urging parents to boycott playthings with violent themes. Says Bob Staake: "Our art asks America to put Gumby, not Rambo, under the Christmas tree. At a time when we are supposed to be celebrating peace, it seems insane to turn war into a Christmas present...
...wouldn't that be by definition insane? Never mind. When it actually wants to do something, the military just plows ahead. Which is how Joseph Heller wound up spending last weekend at the academy. Heller thought the idea not the least bit strange. "Catch-22 is no more antiwar or antimilitary than other novels," he says. "What it's critical of is dishonesty, personal corruption, ambition -- what any decent person would be critical of." Furthermore, the academy agrees; it has been assigning the book since it came out in 1961 as a model of what...
...note of embattled optimism with Heaven: "I need something that I can believe in/ And another person just won't do . . . I believe . . . that there's better days ahead/ I believe . . . there's a heaven before I'm dead." Kempner trucks fresh force and vigor to the antiwar genre in Soldier's Home, then brings the war home in Against My Will, whose protagonist is an American hostage. The situation is familiar ("I'm sitting in a foreign country/ In an army barracks hidden in the hills/ I've been here for nearly seven months now"), but the sentiments...