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...candidate is going to insist on some public appearances as long as this nation is not a police state. But we can make some changes. Presidential travel and campaigns have become huge and frantic spectacles. The size of the crowds at airports and along motorcade routes has become a bogus measure of political popularity...
...film of Nashville no one knows how they'll react. There was a story going around that the picture wouldn't open there, that the City Council had banned it as insulting and a blow to the city's self-image, but this turned out to be bogus. One Nashvillean said they were kind of proud of the movie: another said that the reason Nashville hasn't opened there yet (although it has in twenty cities) was that a local film critic blasted it--particularly the music, which he called inauthentic--so mercilessly that Altman became infuriated. The director...
...premier flatpicker, with his son Merle, presumably doing "Tennessee Stud" like nobody can, and Mike Seeger and the New Lost City Ramblers. Don Stover and the White Oak Mountain Boys, plus a lot of fine New England bluegrass bands. Disregard all reports of the New Riders' appearance as bogus. Call 802-863-3616 for information and campsite reservation...
According to the victims, state authorities might have stopped the bogus deals long ago. In April 1974, Richard Booth, then an assistant state attorney general, outlined the schemes to four state law-enforcement officials and warned that they could result in "the loss of millions of dollars to many innocent parties." Little action was taken on the warning. Instead, complaints appear to have been bucked from one state agency to another, while each tried to determine if it had jurisdiction. Last week State Representative H. Paul Nuckolls called for a legislative investigation of the "coverup" by agencies...
...fill the vacuity of their existence with rich and "devilishly" handsome men. The performances in the film are on the whole superb. Burgess Meredith is excellent as Harry, Faye's father, who has come to Los Angeles after a long career on the vaudeville circuit, now reduced to selling bogus cure-alls door-to-door to the indifferent and openly contemptuous rich. He is the compulsive actor, always "on", even in the midst of his death throes, only rarely exposing the layer of bitterness which rages underneath his act. Contemplating the reasons that he was never able to succeed...