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SILKWOOD Directed by Mike Nichols Screenplay by Nora Ephron and Alice Arlen...
Viet Nam was a televised war, a "livingroom war," in the phrase of Critic Michael Arlen. The camera still conveys, more immediately than almost anything in print, the imagery and texture of war: whirring helicopters, cascades of bombs from the bellies of B-52s, the devastation wrought by battle. As used in the series, the camera is also a neutral observer: it provides a forum to participants ranging from former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger to Vietnamese Premier Pham Van Dong and from Americans who considered the war honorable to those who believed it immoral. Conclusions about right and wrong...
...week, when he died at 86, he had a "new" Broadway hit on Broadway (My One and Only, featuring 17 Gershwin songs) and a "new" movie about to be released (the restored, three-hour version of A Star Is Born, the 1954 Judy Garland vehicle he wrote with Harold Arlen). The words he set to music are still sung regularly in nightclubs and shower stalls around the world. With his brother, he helped shape modern popular music. He set toes tapping, the movies singing and millions of lovers listening to an Iradescent lyric and proclaiming, " 'S wonderful...
Hollings' move was accepted after only brief debate. His margin of victory came when four Republican senators, some of whose votes were unknown, sided with him. They included Sen Mark Hatfield of Oregon, Lowell Weicker of Connecticut. Arlen Spector of Pennsylvania, and Mark Andrews of North Dakota...
...indictment of TV, it does provide a fresh, perhaps even workable scheme for curing TV addiction. Wilkins presents a distressing vision of Television Land as an endless series of television sets, holding an infinite series of smaller sets, endlessly mirroring them selves. It was TV Critic Michael Arlen who said that television connects viewers to nothing except the assumption of being connected to something. Wilkins' advice...