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After a year of that, Dory tried modeling, but at 5 ft. 5 in. she was too short. She got a job as a chorus girl in a road company of Top Banana, but was fired on the road. Too broke to get back to New York, she holed up in Chicago. She kept alive with odd jobs, and began to read books, something she had been forbidden as a child. "I leaped into Kafka, Joyce, T.S. Eliot," she recalls. "I began writing short stories, song lyrics." These led to a job writing movie lyrics for MGM in Hollywood...
...Millhouse lies in the hatred it so provokes. For, unlike De Antonio's other documentaries (Point of Order. Year of the Pig), Millhouse eschews an analytic framework except for its constant reminders of the temptations that media politics possess for the political candidate (for although Nixon is its top banana, other national pols also appear in the film to stand similarly condemned). And yet, I would not be prepared to admit that Millhouse is a film that speaks only to those already converted to a hatred of President Nixon. Numerous though they may be, I fear there...
Raoul Coutard's Hoa Binh begins on the outside. Its first shot is a map of East Asia, and there is the Vietnam of our mind's eye, a twisted banana fastened to the Asian underside. The map gives way to images of American soldiers, transporting weapons, rescuing the wounded, and patrolling the jungle. Still, it is Vietnam from without, seen through Western eyes, in terms of bombing targets, helicopter landing zones, bars and whorehouses...
...Antonio's jubilant bias sometimes plays him false. Nixon is too often seen stumbling over a foot or a phrase, and sometimes satire descends to the level of easy derision, as when scenes of Nixon's South American visit in 1958 are accompanied by the old Chiquita Banana jingle on the sound track...
...says, his credit card was canceled. When he inquired why, he was told that his entire file was missing from the company's records. The presumption was that the FBI was examining his receipts. Another worry was that Bill Bonanno's enemies might mistake Talese for a Banana warrior...