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MALLE MAKES SUCH SCENES seem plausible in his Atlantic City, and as a slice of fallen life this is a successful film. But as a presentation of a handful of characters and their lives Atlantic City fails. Malle seems to have trouble casting male Americans: Keith Carradine's deadwood performance in Pretty Baby nearly ruined that movie, and in Atlantic City Burt Lancaster acts with such leaden sluggishness you wonder if the projector is running at the right speed...
...Deadwood's Housing Crisis...
...article "Deadwood's Defunct Houses" [July 28], you quote Thomas Blair, supporter of "the anti-whorehouse drive," as saying: "I'm not going to legislate my morality on someone else, but I don't want anyone legislating their immorality on me." Mr. Blair seems to confuse permitting immorality with legislating it, as though the law could require him to patronize a house against his wishes. He manifests a tendency, increasingly common among Americans, to equate choice with compulsion...
Opponents of the bordellos point out that, for all their do-gooding, they did not pay Deadwood's 1% sales tax. Thomas Blair, an anesthetist who helped form a committee to support the anti-whorehouse drive, quotes reports that some of the houses made at least $5,000 a week. Their winked-at illegality was an affront to law-abiding citizens, he says, adding: "I'm not going to legislate my morality on someone else, but I don't want anyone legislating their immorality...
...future, Pam predicts that ordinary prostitutes will soon replace the banished charm-school graduates. "Are there going to be hookers in Deadwood?" she asks. "You better believe it. We're going to be loaded with them...