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...extent to which El Topo is just another exploiter of the youth-freak market is indicated by the fact that the film is being released by the producer of three of the Beatles and that a record is now out of "Music from 'El Topo'.' Maybe they'll start selling packaged guts...
...comedy called Pretty Poison. None of the shrewd, chilly humor present in that effort can be detected in Jennifer on My Mind. There are only two small bright moments: Peter Bonerz does a funny, lamentably brief turn as an unctuous psychiatrist. And Robert De Niro appears as a speed-freak gypsy cab driver who doesn't want to take Marcus to Oyster Bay. "Come up, see my sister instead," De Niro leers. Marcus declines, and as De Niro hurls his purple Day-Glo cab into gear, he screams, "The gypsies lose again...
Alan S. Franken '73, author and director of the production, said he sent the invitation over a month ago by registered mail. "We tried to make the invitation as non-abrasive as we could." Franken said yesterday, and added, "Some people were scared that by some freak, Nixon would accept...
Superior Man. "He was really a freak in this profession," reflected one of Steiner's old Biafra mates recently in Nairobi. "As a kind of self-appointed messiah, he thought he had a mission to fight for African underdogs. The runaway scholar of divinity was seeing himself as a kind of armed missionary, the superior man from the superior race playing savior to the persecuted." With a little more juju, Steiner may yet be out in time to fight another...
Quite a few of these shorter songs suffer from a common fault--they are almost skeletal compared to the usual concert versions. Many of them consist of precious little beyond vocals and a short instrumental break. And, as any good Dead freak knows, vocals have never been the Dead's strongest point. So, in effect, one often gets a tantalizing whiff of what the Dead can be, rather than a substantial a taste of what the Dead are. "Mama Tried" and "Me and My Uncle" epitomize this lethargy...