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Exodus. (1960) Leon Uris' tale of modern Israel's founding in a 25th anniversary showing. Then-blacklisted screenwriter Dalton Trumbo wrote the script under a fake name to avoid tinging this inspirational message in film with any insidious red influence. CH.56. 9 p.m. Color. 2 hrs. Part II same time Friday night...
Faulty interpretations can create much disappointment, as in the movie version of his novel The Fixer, "Horrible. That thing went to five different writers. Edward Albee was one of them but he would only do it if he had full say over it. Dalton Trumbo finally wrote the screen play and he's a hack. The film should have been done as a sort of fable, in black and white. Instead, it was all galloping Cossacks and dancing girls: an overdone fake. And that sickens a writer--to see his book faked...
...propaganda than as entertainment. Except for a bit with Donald Sutherland sportscasting the war as if the combat zone were a huge football field, the skits are heavyhanded and almost devoid of humor, the songs sing-along antiques from the coffeehouse era. At one point, reading a passage from Dalton Trumbo's antiwar novel Johnny Got His Gun, Sutherland seems paralyzed with moral fervor...
Died. Josephine P. Boardman Crane, 98, pioneer of progressive education, in Falmouth, Mass. A philanthropist and founder of the New York Museum of Modern Art, Mrs. Crane was the original sponsor of the Dalton Plan, a much-copied experiment in education adopted in 1919 in the Dalton, Mass., public school near her home. The plan, now the basis of New York's Dalton and many other schools, permits students to work at their own pace, freed from daily assignments, provided they meet a set goal...
...Sierra Madre," "The Great Dictator," "Yankee Doodle Dandy," "Cover Girl," "Pride of the Marines," and the Bogart classic "Casablances." Flim clips are followed by interviews with Ingrid Bergman and Robert Mitchum. The political pressures of the era are discussed by directors John Huston and Frank Capra: and writers Dalton Trumbo and Albert Maltz who were both black-listed at the time. 7:30, May 20. Chan...