Word: clydes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Harassment by police is the target of a sophisticated Indian uprising in Minneapolis, which has one of the few Indian ghettos in any city. There Clyde Bellecourt, 33, a tough Chippewa who has spent 14 years behind bars, has organized an "Indian Patrol." Dressed in red jackets, its members use short-wave radios to follow police activity, then show up to observe the cops silently whenever an Indian gets into trouble. After the patrol was formed, there were no arrests of Indians for 22 straight weekends. Ironically, it was during a prison term for burglary that Bellecourt decided he could...
...Sidney Poitier to work for nothing "up front" but 10% of the gross in To Sir with Love. Poitier's take is $2,000,000 already and should hit $4,000,000. Natalie Wood, once around the $750,000 level, turned down a similar deal in Bonnie and Clyde, then last year came around on Bob and Carol and Ted and Alice; she won't be sorry...
...Things have changed since President Johnson left town. All the pictures of Texas heroes I put up in the Press Office are gone-Sam Houston, Davy Crockett, Bonnie and Clyde. The secretaries even answer the telephones differently. They used to say: 'Press Office, you all.' Now they say: 'Batten, Barton, Durstine & Osborn...
ALICE'S RESTAURANT. In 1967 it was not The Graduate, but Arthur Penn's Bonnie and Clyde which had something to say about those Americans who are lost in their homeland. And this year it is not Easy Rider, but Alice's Restaurant...
...film's story, unlike that of Bonnie and Clyde. is almost non-existent; it revolves around the attempts of the alienated heroes to find community in and around a Stockbridge, Massachusetts church. And while Alice's Restaurant has the feel of a comedy (after all, it is based on Arlo Guthrie's humorous song. "Alice's Restaurant Massacre"), it is nonetheless one of the most depressing films of this year or any other. Love dope, sex, money, utopianism, political action-none of these phenomena can offer salvation to Arlo and his friends. And, unlike Easy Rider, this film does...