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Directed by JERRY BRUCK...
...Jerry Bruck Jr.'s superb and loving documentary about I.F. Stone matches its subject in humor, skepticism and the ability to snatch truth deftly out of deep puddles of propaganda...
Lasting just 62 minutes, unobtrusively narrated by New York Times Columnist Tom Wicker, the film takes its title from Stone's newsletter, which was written, edited, proofed and published by Stone for 19 years. In December 1971, having reached the age of 64, Stone closed the last issue. Bruck ends his film with Stone saying goodbye to his printers -a sequence of rushed, embarrassed feeling-and a sort of postlude in which Stone gleefully admits something that has been obvious all along: "I really have so much fun I ought to be arrested...
...Until one sees Stanislaw Skrowaczewski laugh out loud in the midst of a rapturously joyful piece of Haydn, or watches him reach out his arms to conduct a Bruck ner symphony with all the tenderness of a father embracing his first-born child, then one is missing many facets of our Minnesota maestro...
...Bruck: "The great majority of American girls seem to like their noses small, slightly turned up, on the short side. But my foreign patients think the longer nose has character...