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Particularly in those films which Hollywood has produced to help fortify its own mystique. Some of the most exuberant and entertaining movies of the past two decades-Stanley Donen's Singing in the Rain, Billy Wilder's Sunset Boulevard and Robert Aldrich's Legend of Lylah Clare -have been about Hollywood and the strange brand of people who make it tick. The latter two of these pictures are being offered by the Currier House Film Society this week, and, if you love American movies and are in some way obsessed by the factory that made them, you simply cannot miss...
...bits of the war, racism and pollution do creep into Alex , but in a manner so fraudulent that the words are reduced to mere shells. Mazurky shows us Alex fantasizing a guerrilla attack on Hollywood Boulevard during the filming of a Doris Day musical. And Mazurky shows us a surreal vision of a polluted LA airport as well as a tribe of dancing blacks descending upon a colony of Jewish intellectuals. But, never, never, is he able to give either Alex or his film any deeper method of understanding the phenomenon they want so badly to discuss...
...arrested during a demonstration early last month for hitting a policeman; denied bail and access to a defense attorney, he was convicted on police testimony and sentenced to three months in prison. While Guiot's appeal was being heard last week, 10,000 students took over the Boulevard St.-Michel from the Sorbonne to the Seine. It was the biggest student demonstration since the May 1968 riots...
...disturbance began at the end of a rally sponsored by the Chicano Moratorium Committee attended by 5000 people. About 1000 demonstrators marched to a police substation at the end of the rally but were dispersed after a few minutes. An hour later, looting began along Whittier Boulevard, six blocks from the substation...
...when a "hip," young social writer could say of a very Establishment Beverly Hills party, "There was nothing radically chic about the Hudsons' last night. The women all wore bras, the gay libbers stayed home on Hollywood Boulevard, and few blacks were even present. It was just a fun party, but it was all the better...