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Harvard Independent Exec. and Writer...
...good part: Pryor is splendidly funny. When the agribiz company transfers him back to his home town-by now he's an exec in a three-piece suit-he sets up his mistress and their baby on one side of town and lives with his wife (Margaret Avery) on the other. Since he is trying to be true to his mistress (here Sicily obtrudes), he doesn't make love to his wife. She decides that he must be accustomed to a sophisticated, Los Angeles kind of foreplay, and a marvelously boisterous (and girlsterous) scene follows in which...
...Army Jamboree in reaction, inviting several thousand anti-legionaires to attend. A confrontation between the two groups seemed inevitable, so, in gubernatorial character, McCall called out the national guard and ordered a helicopter to be sent to the city for possible crowd dispersal. But unlike your average chief exec, McCall specified that the troops were not to carry guns and that the helicopter should not be stocked with the usual tear gas, but instead rose petals, since Portland is nicknamed the City of Roses. By these and other techniques, the governor kept both sides off balance, and prevented any incidents...
...trends go unchecked? All of that is true enough, but the real problem is that Chayefsky has betrayed his own truest instinct about the medium. At one point he has William Holden, the news executive who functions as the movie's superego, inform Faye Dunaway, the ratings-mad exec who is its id, that the trouble with TV is that it reduces everything to banality. That may well be true. But at every turn Chayefsky's plot invests television with a sinister power to cloud men's minds, not through stupefying reductionism but by heated exaggeration...
...Exec. Comm., H-R Combined Charities; Varsity Crew; Varsity Basketball; Football Cheerleaders (Capt.); Hasty Pudding Club...