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Hollywood, creator of America's next breed of immortals could possess them as completely. Representing for America the great internationalization of the great American dream, it created another race of stars apart, another generation of lucky creatures locked in another as different a world...
...vanity. But this movie ignores all appropriate acknowledgemeets. It lacks the grace to pay tribute to any vanished aspect of its past. It is too stuck up--failing to break out of the hollowness of its conception, echoing instead a hollowness not unlike that of West Egg. And its breed of pretentiousness is simply 30 years too late...
...reading about streaking [March 18], I am reminded of the early white explorers of Africa who at the sight of nude Africans termed them "black monkeys," "the primitives," etc. Today we see pictures of nude whites on campuses and streets. Shall we now call this new breed the white campus primitives or the city monkeys...
...prefer the slothful breed of the '60s, people who thought their future lives--and this was wonderful--would bear no resemblance to their pasts, and who, when called upon to discipline their personalities, to get on with it, just stood there dumbfounded, refusing to budge a calculated inch. Better to wander here in circles through the bright trappings of that discarded future...
ACTORS ARE A fragile, bizarre breed. Their eccentricities and insecurities are probably linked to the nature of their livelihood. They grope for recognition and an intangible goal called "the top" only to defend the niche from eager young talents. To attempt the climb one must be hooked--on laughter, on audiences, on applause...