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Alas, today's press background in general tends more towards gargle than vitriol. Peter Bogdanovich, film buff extraordinaire and doubtless nice guy, fashions a Sherwood Anderson-cum-Texas dialect-cum-hokum pastiche, The Last Picture Show, and gets praised by Life for bringing life back to movies. Stanley Kubrick--more impressive pictorially, bearded and brooding--reeks of intellect for as stodgy a publication as Saturday Review...
Holtzman was born in Brooklyn and attended Abraham Lincoln High School before entering Radcliffe. She graduated magna cum laude in American History and went on to receive a L.L.B. from the Law School...
Owens received her A.B. degree summa cum laude in economics from Smith College in 1919, studied economics at the University of Chicago, was an economist for seven years in U.S. agencies, and then received her LL.B. degree from the Yale Law School...
Charles W. Freeman Jr., 28, Interpreter. A magna cum laude graduate of Harvard Law School and a career diplomat, Freeman served in Taiwan and is now attached to the State Department's China section as a translator and analyst. He has scored near perfect grades in Chinese language examinations and is probably the department's most fluent Chinese linguist...
...plastic Christmas tree, thousands of gaudy decorations obscuring a very simple trunk, the girl-gets-boyfriend plot. The girl in question, Twiggy, gets the boy friend pretty much through divine right as star of the film and through no readily apparent merit of her own. As Polly Browne, understudy cum assistant stage manager of a seedy British theater, she is called out one day to replace the aging star (Glenda Jackson) who has hurt her foot in a tram accident. Remember, credibility is not the point. Just before Polly is due to go on--and face the sparse matinee audience...