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...inauspicious occasion of this movie's debut, condolences again to the great Anne Bancroft. There has been, recently, a spate of movies about women -Alice Doesn 't Live Here Anymore, The Stepford Wives, A Woman Under the Influence-which has led to the suggestion that at last the American cinema is losing its masculine bias, that now there are lots of good roles for women and lots of good actresses to play them. Well, the actresses may be there, but the parts are not. Why would Anne Bancroft be in this movie otherwise...
Frankenstein is the first film of a three-picture deal with 20th Century-Fox that allows Brooks "to make a living with no artistic restraints." Married since 1964 to Actress Anne Bancroft (friends jokingly call them Beauty and the Beast), Brooks lives quietly in Beverly Hills. When he is not working on a script he works on his friends ("If he's not feeding you," says one of them, "he's telling you what kind of car or clothes to buy"). He is still a passionate reader, especially of 19th century Russian novels...
...Contemporary electronic equipment has only sharpened the picture on the tube, but not the commentary. Shows like Studio One and Playhouse 90 contributed as much pyrite as gold. But at their least, they gave good actors a shot at big roles: Rod Steiger, James Dean, Paul Newman, Anne Bancroft, Joanne Woodward were all there in living black and white. Satire, said Playwright George S. Kaufman, is what closes Saturday night. But somehow every Saturday night Sid Caesar's Your Show of Shows managed to kid every facet of '50s life, from commuters to foreign films. Satire thrived...
...those where some bands languished before making it, and where countless other bands have died out. Dogs wander in threes and fours through the garbage-strewn neighborhood which contains other struggling groups. "This is an old blue collar area rapidly being overrun by Puerto Ricans and hippies," explains Kent Bancroft, the lead singer and rhythm guitarist. "Somewhere along the line, they decided they would rather have us hippies...
...record deal fell through in August when the producer who was backing them had a serious auto accident and left the business, and now, the Sweat Band is doing some recording of original songs by Bancroft and his brother Gordon. Kent is taking a producing course at the Orson Welles Cinema that includes use of a studio, but the group has to pay for each record they press...