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...movie's weakest point, ironically, is its self-conscious filmishness. The black-and-white photography by Conrad Hall may be the best of the year, but Brooks tricks it up with flashy dissolves-a bus becomes a moving train, a prostitute metamorphizes into Perry's mother-that give the film a slick and slippery surface. In Cold Blood, moreover, unnecessarily belabors the arguments against capital punishment by introducing a sob-brother journalist who wearyingly articulates the message...
CHAPPAQUA. Instead of writing his autobiography, Conrad Rooks has made an 82-minute apologia pro sua dolce vita on film, playing himself as the mixed-up son of a rich man who spirals downward into the junkie's world of hallucination and finally emerges to self-realization...
...Greenwood to show their faces on TV. Last week's was Urban League Director Whitney Young; before that the program offered Bayard Rustin, Senators Charles Percy and Wayne Morse, Billy Graham and Walter Heller. Next week Greenwood has filming sessions scheduled with Bobby Kennedy, Jack Benny and Conrad Hilton. For next month, when Greenwood goes to Europe, he has talks arranged with West German Foreign Minister Willy Brandt and, pending approval of the questions, Charles de Gaulle...
OVER THE BLUE MOUNTAIN, by Conrad Richter, illustrated by Herbert Danska (Knopf; $3.75). The old Pennsylvania Dutch legend holds that on the second of July, a woman named Mary walks over the mountain; if it rains that day, Mary doesn't come back and there are 40 days of rain. Set in the Blue Ridge Mountains, Richter's story tells what happens when two boys meet a real Mary...
CHAPPAQUA. Conrad Rooks gives his own 82-minute phantasmagoric apologia pro sua dolce vita in which the ex-junkie-alcoholic takes himself into and then out of the world of addiction and related vice...