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Thieves Like Us would be filed under the subheading "On the Road: Crime and Aimless Kids." That has been a flourishing category ever since the success of Bonnie and Clyde, but Thieves Like Us has an even more direct ancestor. It is a remake of Nicholas Ray's excellent They Live by Night (1947), which, along with Fritz Lang's You Only Live Once, set the model in the first place. As usual, Altman supplies not an answer but an alternative to the styles and conventions of the genre...
...Hasty Pudding Woman-of-the-Year Award." This year the honors went to Faye Dunaway, 33, hailed as "the most explosive package of beautiful talent to have hit the stage and screen in years." Faye, whose only sizable screen detonation occurred in 1967 when she starred in Bonnie and Clyde, enjoyed the Cambridge ceremonies: a Faye Dunaway look-alike contest, won by a platinum-wigged male student, and a couple of numbers from this year's revue, Keep Your Pantheon. Later she gushed: "These Harvard guys are wonderful, and they play it straight...
Most bewildered of all are the city's Republicans. Clyde Brummell, 47, a carpenter and a Republican precinct committeeman, says: "When I was growing up, all I heard was that Herbert Hoover caused the Depression. Now they are trying to Hooverize the Republican Party again, saddling us with something we didn't cause...
BAKER LIBRARY, Bonnie and Clyde, Sept. 28-30, 8 p.m., 8 (and 10 on Fri.), $1. HARKNESS COMMONS, Bus Stop with Marilyn Monroe, Sept. 29, 8, $1 or $.50 with HLSA card...
...Cambridge, Play It Again Sam (Woody Allen's best film, with excellent parody inserts of film styles), Bad Company (a Western by the authors of Bonnie and Clyde), Bed and Board (a witty film by Truffaut), Exterminating Angel (pointed, vicious, yet entertaining surrealism at an upper class dinner party by Luis Bunuel), Yojimbo (a samurai Western by Kurosawa), The Hireling (a deficient companion piece to The go-Between), and finally, those two theaters wading in stagnant ponds...