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...that most of the people on his show take a critical stance toward America. Last week, for instance, his guests included: Townsend H?opes, whose book. The Limits of Intervention, discusses the mistakes the government made which got us into Vietnam: Harvard's own George Wald and columnist Jimmy Breslin, both of whom have been outspoken (in different ways) about America's faults: and Jonathan Miller, one of whose topics was myths Americans have created about themselves. The only guest who came close to balancing out the list was Kevin Phillips, anther of The Emerging Republican Majority and an important...
...itself in such niceties as a chauffeured limousine and the three-quarters of a million-dollar advance sale for Lovers. He also has a major role in Otto Preminger's Tell Me That You Love Me, Junie Moon, plus an offer to do the movie version of Jimmy Breslin's Mafia comedy, The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight. He has even hired a money manager -"The same one Neil Simon has. I can't go wrong there...
...Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight, Breslin...
...Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight, Breslin...
...Breslin's side-of-the-mouth humor proceeds from flat understatement followed immediately by clarifying overstatement: "Raymond the Wolf passed away in his sleep one night from natural causes; his heart stopped beating when the three men who slipped into his bedroom stuck knives in it." Occasionally he offers a bemused sociological insight: "Southern Italy is the same as the rest of the world. People stroke and polish machines while goats urinate in their houses." The trouble is that after a while the joke, like chewing gum on a bedpost, loses its flavor...