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Perhaps a good 1976 campaign theme for Jerry Ford would be: "Being President means never having to say yes." After a year in the White House, he has vetoed 36 bills. We know Ford has opposed bills to fund emergency jobs, regulate strip mining, increase moderate-income housing, etc. The question is, what does he stand...
...Time of Your Life, by William Saroyan, is a journey back to October, 1939--one that is sometimes sentimental, but nearly always absorbing. One character after another wanders in to Nick's Pacific Street Saloon, Restaurant and Entertainment Palace, each with his or her own memories, hopes, disappointments, etc. The play is certainly dated, but that's part of its charm. And this production sets the right tone, with a set that could serve as a museum model for a down-and-out bar in 1939. At the Loeb tonight and tomorrow and Monday through Saturday at 8 p.m., except...
...instance, the subject of consciousness-raisin. No doubt it is possible to write an "objective" examination of such a topic--interview various people, authorities, social critics, etc., pro and con--but it probably wouldn't be nearly as interesting or nearly as revealing. What Ephron found her group degenerating into was "a running soap opera, with new episodes on the same theme every week"--Episode 13 of the Barbara is Uninhibited and Peter is a Drag Show, Episode 19 of the Will Joanna Ever Get Dave to Share the Household Duties Show; Claire and Herbie in the Claire has Sexual...
...shot John Millus, who, along with Robert Towns (shampoo, The Last Detail) is Hollywood's favorite litte scriptwriter This film he directs as well, but his skills in the department may be quickly dismissed as amateurish--a hopeless waste of a very large budget, lots of locations and extras, etc. But his scriptwriter is something to be reckoned with--he has made quite a lot of money for pictures like Dirty Harry, Dillinger, Jeremiah Johnson, Judge Roy Bean. And it's terrifying to know that people responded to these films--they play on the most violent and degrading of fantasies...
...Producers, Friday and Saturday, 2 and 10 p.m., B's, C's, D's, etc., the reverse of the above...