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There is indeed "only one sovereign Lord of all creation," no matter how far into the wild black yonder that creation exists. Far from quaking in our cassocks, Catholic priests welcome and bless those looking for life out there...
...Long Bar of Meikle's Hotel in Salisbury, white Rhodesians were clinking bottles and roaring the merry refrain of Land of Hope and Glory. From the African bar at the other corner of the building came a throaty Nkosi Si-kelele Afrika (God Bless Africa). "There you have it," said a Rhodesian businessman as he listened to both. "Take a man from one of those bars, push him into the other, and it would be like throwing in a hand grenade. Britain and the rest of the world can do what they like, but this is what Rhodesia...
...with video tape, overindulge in elaborate color effects that give the movie the touchingly antiquated look of a psychedelic record jacket. The craziness climaxes, fittingly enough, with full cast and chorus raising their voices in an irreverent anthem: "Lord, have mercy on the fate of this movie/ And God bless the mind of the man in the street." Mothers fans will be ecstatic, but the man in the street will need more than prayer to pull him through 200 Motels...
...Beach (one pigeon raced through police lines); gave his analysis of the studio and star systems (the studios will die in a couple of years of unmitigated elephantiasis; the big stars are getting forced into television); and related how he handled his six youthful charges in Bless: "We were alone in the desert, and they did what I wanted...
Kramer's latest effort says nothing much about everything. Elements of youthful alienation, masculine role-playing, western violence, and the sterility of bourgeois life, are all either sketched in, or driven home with a sledgehammer. Bless the Beasts and Children is so lacking in intellect, or psychological veracity, that its heavy allegory of six middle-class youngsters who try to save 70 buffalo from an annual sport-slaughter becomes, in effect, only a shaggy-bull story. Columbia execs must be worried: the film has, in general, been drubbed, and they've given it a big Boston build-up. They...