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ADMITTEDLY, Edward Bond's play is not the simplest fare an amateur group could settle on. Set in lower-middle class England, the welfare state of yesterday's Look Back in Anger as well as tomorrow's Clockwork Orange, Saved is an unrelenting down. Osborne's young men were at least angry; Bond's are either brutish or defeated. Len, the Cockney whose abortive attempts to establish wife and family provide the structure of the piece, wants only to settle for a little peace and quiet, is willing to suffer living with his in-laws, even tries to look...
When Durso examines the intricate clockwork of sport he is most successful in jarring our conceptions. He tells us that sports became big business to maintain a profit. Athletic corporations frantically searched for new markets in the face of spiralling costs, wage and labor disputes, and a dollar squeeze. In the process, Durso thinks, sports businesses like Madison Square Garden, the owners of a racetrack, a basketball and hockey team, an ice show, and boxing interests, fomented a revolution which saw money supplant entertainment as professional sport's raison d'etre...
...Awards. With the little fellow's creator, Charlie Chaplin, on hand for his honorary Oscar, the rest of the usual inanity was almost bearable. In its professional judgments, the Academy showed an unforgivable lapse: neither John Schlesinger's Sunday Bloody Sunday nor Stanley Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange collected a single Oscar. The acting awards, on the other hand, were highly plausible. Most striking was Jane Fonda's citation as Best Actress for her portrayal of a call girl in Klute, showing that Hollywood is no longer totally hysterical about off-screen ventures in radical politics...
...director who does not receive Resnais's unreserved admiration is Stanley Kubrick. He does praise Kubrick's ability to answer the critics and his technical accomplishment. "But I can't understand why I don't enjoy Clockwork Orange more at the end. I was not fulfilled. I think he could use more speed . . . . I would like sometime to edit...