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Credentials don't always describe a man, particularly a writer, but in Brackman's case they are, indeed, impressive, and should be listed early in a profile both to point out his impressive and varied career and to get them out of the way. So here they are: upon graduation, Brackman went to work for Newsweek. That lasted about six months, after which New Yorker magazine hired him as an all-purpose writer-reviewer. He stayed until 1969, when he became Esquire's film critic. After four years of seeing more than 30 films a month--too much, even...
...Brackman is back in Boston--for the first time since 1969, when Life sent him here to cover the Harvard strike of that spring--and he is, as he desires, back into show business. He wrote the lyrics for King of Hearts, the musical version of Phillipe de Broca's Cambridge cult film which opens this week in Boston, moving to New York in the middle of October. When we met for an interview at Bartley's Burger Cottage last week, he was relaxed--although he did chain-smoke--open, friendly, and above all, interesting. Not to mention funny...
...Brackman seems to have enjoyed his undergraduate career, although academics do not figure prominently in his recollections: "I played a great deal of pool... between the time I spent in the Adams House pool room and The Crimson, I could account for ten hours a day. But it got dangerous at times. There were guys in that room who, without any warning, could shoot two or three racks at any given time...
...Brackman admits that his undergraduate career was not exactly typical of the "Best and Brightest" atmosphere of Harvard in the early '60s. "I mean, I got turned on to psychedelics while I was an undergraduate. While people were going after that whole Leary-Alpert connection, I was doing the same thing they were. My values became much more in the late '60s mode," he says...
...Brackman is wrapped up in King of Hearts and a film called Days of Heaven, of which he is the executive producer--another new venture for him. Days of Heaven, directed by Terrence Malik (Badlands), will open early in October. In the meantime, Brackman finds himself in the rather odd position of waiting for the critics--many of them his former associates--to give the verdict on his works...