Word: bernsteins
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Screenplay by Walter Bernstein...
...doubt the year's most socially useful film. Dan Jenkins' bestseller has been slow to reach the screen, and in the intervening years the subject of his satire-pro football's Lombardi era, with all its dark Nixonian overtones-has lost some of its edge. Adapter Bernstein and Director Ritchie have found a contemporary lunacy with the same rich possibilities in the human-potential movement, and for that they earn the gratitude of right thinkers everywhere. The Kilgore Rangerettes really ought to spell out their names between halves of the Super Bowl...
...found saintliness threatens the stability of the maison à trois. His "seriousness" turns Barbara Jane's head. She must be rescued from both BEAT and marriage by Reynolds, who pretends a conversion of his own in order to expose the shallowness of the movement. The Ritchie-Bernstein version of an est seminar is done with marvelous malice, but it is not their only target. Along the way they take on rolfing, pyramid power and even something called movagenics, which invites its adepts to drop down on all fours and crawl around looking for their lost center of consciousness...
That prospect troubles many journalists. "The real danger is that the ruling will make some newspapers gun-shy about running certain stories," says Jack Nelson, Washington bureau chief of the Los Angeles Times. Adds Investigative Reporter Carl Bernstein, of Watergate fame: "There is just that much more risk that you'll end up in the slam...
...which changes in freshman life inconvenience upperclassmen. Clearly, freshman year as it is now set up is not perfect. But the continuing effort to improve it should be conducted by those who are genuinely interested in freshman life, and not by those whose interest is only peripheral. Richard D. Bernstein...