Word: films
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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BLACK JOURNAL. Included in this month's "black magazine" are stories on the semantics of color, a profile of Negro Film Director Melvin Van Peebles, and a report on the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party, which four years ago challenged the all-white delegation to the Democratic National Convention and this year joins a Mississippi coalition of dissidents to renew its appeal...
...that eight seconds of flawless acting was turned in by none other than Oregon's Senator Wayne Morse. Seems Morse was seated next to a movie executive on a recent plane ride, who suggested the Senator would make the perfect saddle man for a bit in a new film, Paint Your Wagon. Morse was delighted, even suggested the extra little business of standing in the saddle instead of just sitting there to deliver his five-word line. "His voice was good and strong," says Logan, "but of course, he's had practice in that...
...cameramen were taping the minute-by-minute events on the floor and around town. This footage was quickly edited into an "instant special," which went on at 9:30 p.m. local time. The opening night's 90 minutes, for example, were culled from some 24 hours of film and videotape. In general ABC's unconventional coverage did not evoke the flavor of the convention or impart any sense of urgency. And on the two balloting nights, of course, ABC had no choice but to go overtime. Still, the ABC experiment cut to the very nature...
...most successful modern users of the camera as an aid to painting are the U.S.'s Howard Kanovitz and Britain's Malcolm Morley, both of whom use photography as a way to probe that old Platonic question. Says Kanovitz: "Certainly the film Rashomon and, more recently, the Warren Commission report illustrate how impossible it is to 'tell it the way it really is.' " Adds Morley: "Realism hasn't even been dealt with in the 20th century. The Ashcan School were all preachers, and pop artists are busy trying to make their painting abstract...
...gets carried out with the luggage. The Malapropism: "You are pushing my leg." The convoluted scheme: a gang of thieves disguise themselves in Clouseau masks to enter Swiss banks. The third time round, however, the mixture is flat and tasteless. Bud Yorkin's slovenly direction makes the film look as if every expense had been spared, trapping Arkin in a farce of habit that will probably retire Clouseau to oblivion -one picture too late...