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...Chicago while Jerry Rubin and Abbie Hoffmann galloped over the convention floor as fully accredited representatives of Mad and Popular Mechanics. Marlo Thomas pushed very hard in order to get a picture of Hubert Humphrey. Jesse Jackson walked the corridors with Wallace delegates. Norman Mailer, Gloria Steinem, Jimmy Breslin. Germaine Greer, Robert (UNCLE) Vaughan, all these as well as unprecedented numbers of blacks, women, and young delegates converged in the same hall. The gathering prompted incredulity, like that experienced by the peach-slacked Miami matron who walked her sequined-collared toy poodle into the midst of the SDS march...
...Boston's tax collection apparatus had a lead on it that probably would have turned James Q. Wilson's head. McCarthy said it turned his stomach. He went into a long speech about writing for the man who reads the paper. It was not unlike the speech Jimmy Breslin (another Herald Traveler alumnus) gave to the A.J. Leibling Counter-Convention of reporters in New York a few weeks...
...just too intent on finishing last. In contrast, as his rival Fred, Frank W. Leupold enters a stylish, occasionally overly malignant performance. As Mary, the mother of Len's girlfriend, Nora Jacobson is most convincing, a catch-all of stray hairs and wasted spirits. Rounding out the household. Lynne Breslin and Richard Christenson are no less relenting in the purpose with which they attack their roles, but I think they also suffer most from the emotional monotone that characterizes the evening. Jon Miller and Bob Briggs's lighting goes beyond the minimum demands expected of house drama to make definite...
...long-suffering son in I Never Sang for My Father. Hackman's engaging, sensitive portrayal won him a second Oscar nomination last year for Best Supporting Actor. Largely on the strength of that, he made his connection with Popeye (others who were considered for the role: Jimmy Breslin, Steve McQueen, Jackie Gleason...
...Liebling Counter-Convention, a journalism conference to end all journalism conferences. Among participants in the 14 panel discussions are Gay Talese. Tom Wolfe, Renata Adler, James Aronson, David Halberstam, Dick Schaap, J. Anthony Lukas, Nat Hentoff, Jack Anderson, Martin Nolan, Joe McGinniss, Charles Goodell, Studs Terkel, Jimmy Breslin, Murray Kempton, Pete Hamill, Nora Ephron, Blair Clark, Erwin Krasnow, Leonard Schecter, Jim Bouton, Charlotte Curtis, Gloria Steinem, Jack Newfield, I.F. Stone, and Seymour Hersh. Noon-8, April 23 and 10-8, April 24. Martin Luther King Labor Center, 310 W. 43 St., New York. Open to the public and free...