Word: feinstein
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Beatles' lives, so we could laugh with them at the absurdities of the strange world they inhabited. The romping in Beach Party was so alien to anything approaching our own teen-age lives that we could sit back and laugh at the ludicrousness of it all. Director-cameraman Barry Feinstein of What You Eat tries the Lester approach--he wants to make us a part of the romp--and fails...
...Feinstein's movie has everything a movie about his subject should have, I guess: social protest, flower children, music (The Electric Flag, Peter Yarrow, Paul Butterfield, Tiny Tim) and the accompanying dances, psychedelic sequences, meditation, grass, sex. He has filmed the whole thing with the wild abandon we presumably associate with hippiedom: the camera bounces up and down, zooms in and out, swings all over the place. Similarly, the picture has been flamboyantly edited; no sequence stays on the screen very long, and Feinstein often cuts back to bits he has established earlier. Still, for all its airs of freedom...
PART of the problem lies in the treatment of the subject. Lester didn't set out to depict the Beatles' world as it really is, but largely created a wacky life-style for them that would be novel for the audience. Feinstein, on the other hand, simply shows us hip youth as it is. This could be fun if we weren't already familiar with this terrain. But we've seen or even lived what he shows ourselves; nothing in You Are What You Eat is new or exciting. Since the film has no characters, there is no personal story...
...year growth rate to keep up the GNP? Perhaps the health service psychiatrists and their administrative cohorts could use some of that increased leisure to think about the charges that the students are making against the adult society which they and the University represent. Howard M. Feinstein...
Born. To Mary Travers Feinstein, 29, of Peter, Paul and Mary, and Barry Feinstein, 35, photographer: their first child, a girl; in Danbury, Conn...