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DEAN MARTIN PRESENTS THE GOLDDIGGERS (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). Everybody, from Shirley Temple to Bonnie and Clyde, not to mention the Golddigger singing-and-dancing lovelies, is represented in this new variety series based on tunes and events of the '30s. Comedian Paul Lynde guest-stars, Joey Heatherton and Frank Sinatra Jr. cohost. Premi...
...Bonnie and Clyde are glorified in an "artistically creative" movie, civil disobedience is condoned by churchmen, children are allowed to do whatever they please so as not to injure their development as total persons, and American youths are justified when they seek freedom without responsibility as a way of life; yet the nation expresses shock at one man taking another's life. Come now, if a disease is allowed to spread, why such surprise when it kills...
...badge of bravery. Ernest Dichter, director of the Institute for Motivational Research at Croton-on-Hudson, N.Y., maintains that "we're just emerging from a brawn culture into a brain culture, and brains are not as dramatic." Guns compensate for that, Dichter adds, by serving as "a virility source. Clyde [of Bonnie and Clyde] is impotent, and he is using his gun to balance that." Indeed, Freudians point out that the gun is an obvious phallic symbol, conferring on its owner a feeling of potency and masculinity.* In a talk with French Novelist Remain Gary two weeks before he died...
...gives the slender story distinction is its unusual style and attitude. It is all rendered from the self-righteously smug "That's the way it was" point of view of the heroine half a century later. Thus the violence is imbued with a bigger-than-camp Bonnie and Clyde quality: the stock two-dimensional figures of the familiar western landscape become disfigured here with a three-dimensional reality as limbs are chopped off and buckshot imbeds itself painfully beneath facial skin...
...lack of theatres. In any case, there is yet no evidence that the Sack Theatres will be adventurous enough to capture films which are either stylistically or thematically inventive. In past years, they did not exhibit The Endless Summer, Alfie, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, or Bonnie and Clyde...