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...main trouble is that Wexler expects the events to tell us that media lie rather than expressing it through the humanity of his characters. To have a boy love pigeons and dream of the old golden fields of West Virginia is a filmmaker's cliche of true human value. Wexler is clearly less at home with people than with the news events, himself. With this in mind, it's easy to understand why he arbitrarily ended the story of his characters with violence, and then turned the camera on his own movie crew before...
...consumers" by foisting off such an unnecessary item of apparel, the Post got a chiding letter from an unexpected source. Wrote Elder Statesman Dean Acheson: "What traitor or fifth columnist on your staff embittered the war between the sexes by blaming men for the bra? Even as a boy looking at pictures of Boadicea, Britain's warrior queen (circa A.D. 60), one could see that she wore a brass bra as protection against the Romans-where it may still be needed, from what I hear. If armor has now been turned from defense to seduction, it was a woman...
...boy comes in asking for change for a quarter. He is followed by a tutor wanting to know if the Senior Common Room bar has been restocked since "all those foreigners drank it up this summer." He gives the boy his change and tells the tutor there are several boxes of liquor in the entry basement...
Bill Graham is a solid, no-nonsense name for a dynamic businessman who in the past four years has made himself a millionaire, acquired a Mercedes, a 29-year-old wife, a baby boy, and offices in both San Francisco and Manhattan. Wolfgang Grajonca, on the other hand, seems a more appropriate title for a temperamental typhoon of promotional creativity, whose obscenity-flavored conversation often builds to a scream, whose business conferences are likely to explode into happenings, and whose office costume usually consists of dirty corduroys and a short-sleeved sweatshirt. That both Bill and Wolfgang inhabit the same...
Coppola's other films (You're a Big Boy Now, Finian's Rainbow) have been overloaded with a kind of lighter-than-air dramaturgy, and The Rain People sadly falls victim to similar sentimental pretentions. The relationship between Natalie and Kilgannon derives from Of Mice and Men, and much of the dialogue is sophomoric Salinger, as when Kilgannon explains that "the rain people are people made of rain. When they cry, they disappear altogether because they cry themselves away." Still, the geography is simply splendid. Coppola seems to sense that lying between the Hudson River...