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This section of the book is good, gossipy reading. There are vivid cameos of Mack Sennett trying to spy on his writers; of Harry Langdon, the baby-faced vaudevillian, suddenly famous and going to pieces; and of Harry Cohn, the libidinous vulgarian who ran Columbia Pictures. It is the latter part of the book, when Capra returns to Hollywood from Army Signal Corps duty during World War II, that makes The Name Above the Title such a poignant reminiscence...
Others entered show business. Harvard '21 gave us Royal Beal, the character who died recently. There was also Robert Lord, who wrote Tom Mix westerns and won an Oscar for best screenplay (in 1932 for One Way Passage, a Tay Garnett picture) and worked with L. B. Mayer, Harry Cohn, Jack Warner and Humphrey Bogart. Another member of the class toured in a road company of Blossom Time...
...German Department is the only department filling all of its openings for next year with women, giving a full professorship to Dorrit Cohn, presently at the University of Indiana, and two assistant professorships-one in German, one in Scandinavian-to Maria Tatar of Princeton and Carol Clover of Berkeley respectively...
...Wind from the East, co-written by Godard and Danny Cohn-Bendit, has three sections. The first is a kind of Third World Western in which we are presented with seven episodes in class war: strike, choosing of a delegate, the militating of active minorities, an assembly in which the composing of the rest of the film is discussed, repression, an active strike followed by the introduction of a police state. The second part is an extension of the ongoing criticisms of the first; the narrator says: "Okay, from a real movement you made a film...
...Samantha. The films themselves ranged from underground polemics to sleek Hollywood productions. Jean-Luc Godard, in the epicenter of the revolution as always, offered West Wind, written in part by Daniel Cohn-Bendit. The film has its practical side: there are detailed descriptions of how to make gasoline bombs, fuses and timers. From the other side of the Atlantic came M.A.S.H., Woodstock, and a film still unreleased in the U.S., The Strawberry Statement...