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...Tyler Moore Show that was nominated for an Emmy. But now Joan Darling has switched to the no woman's land of feature film. Her movie is First Love, the story of a young man (played by William Katt, last seen in Carrie) who loses his girl (Susan Dey) to an older man. "I want all the people who see this picture to remember what it was like to fall in love for the first time," says Darling, 41. Star Katt will always remember what it was like to be directed by a woman. "It was terrific," he says...
...former slave named Andrew Boone described how runaways were beaten: first with a "cobbin" paddle with 40 holes in it to raise blisters, then with a cat-o'-nine-tails. "When de whippin' wit de paddle was over, dey took de cat-o'-nine-tails and busted the blisters. By dis time de blood sometimes would be runnin' down deir heels. Den de next thing was a wash in salt water strong enough to hold up an egg." Then an ex-slave named Lindsey Faucette reported: "Marse never allowed us to be whipped . . . We worked...
...slingers--Altman portrays an acting troupe as he knows most of them to be--generally hungover, self-deluding, myth-gobbling and over-rated. So the real question remains: why choose this metaphor in the first place? Maybe Altman just wanted to give his real actors an improvising hey-dey. Or perhaps he meant only to provoke Dino De Laurentis, his producer. But in a day when far more pretensious films produce far less needed results, a hot-foot for De Laurentis almost seems justification in itself...
...Resist...Resist the insurance of professorships ... Perform ... be tough ... Move beyond urban anxiety to the next era, our era ... Now is the time for art to lead man." If there are times when poetic manifestos are needed, this is one of them, and Dey has made himself a man of the moment. But I really don't know whether poets will sift out Dey's commitment from the quirks of his style. As manifestos should be, "On the Spot" is daring and cranky; depending on how you look at it, though, its manner can be so self-consciously elevated that...
...pages are filled with writing, not graphics; almost all the poems and stories inside are more serious and more polished than the usual run of student literature. The soft-spots of the collection are mostly in various short poems; as it turns out, most of them help prove what Dey's manifesto says about journeymen-poets: that they get bogged down in simply mastering details of techniques, that they must be more than occasional poets to catch the eye of an audience, that they have to resist the temptation of formalizing trivial sensations and impressions, and that, somehow, they have...