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...Easy Rider (1969) and in the freer, more personal films that flowed from its success, Nicholson became a kind of figurehead for a loose group of actors and film makers who were trying to expand the commercial genre. Nicholson, Actors Peter Fonda and Dennis Hopper, Writer-Directors Bob Rafelson, Monte Hellman, Carol and Charles Eastman-none of them then well known-all cheered and boosted each other. Their work was almost always full of aggressive invention (Rafelson's Five Easy Pieces, Hopper's The Last Movie, Nicholson's own Drive, He Said), but the new Hollywood passed...
There has been a movement recently for studios to give freer rein to some promising young directors. This has been based for the most part on the enormous success of George Luca's low-budget American Graffiti. Now other young directors--Marty Scorsese, Terry Matlick, Steven Spielberg,--have made successful first films. But, Altman says, there are not enough. And the studios are still trying to keep their hands on the director's shoulder. "There should be room for more than just these," he says. "And Spielberg, for instance, is still under contract to Universal for about five more years...
...they do not make the reader stop and wonder, and make that wonder deepen, at least they are free of error and extravagance and demonstrate the strengths and weaknesses of a sound, stolid commentary. But it is unfortunate that such a distinguished group of contributors was not given a freer hand; I would much rather have heard what Baker or Kermode had to say for themselves than read the views of the less-distinguished critics they quote in the hope of being even-handed...
...fortunately their accompaniment in the Concertante and the Concerto was unobtrusive, if not tame. They may have been inspired by the soloists' performances. Most disappointing in the Suite and Symphony were the solos and small ensemble passages, although the flutes and trumpets were consistently good. Less rigid conducting and freer interchange between the solo musicians in these sections would have improved the situation considerably...
...turnouts and performance. Women's own attitudes toward sports are changing." This, he believes, is largely because of the women's movement. Judy Wenning agrees. Coordinator of the Task Force on Sports for the National Organization for Women (NOW), Wenning believes that "women are freer now to express their competitiveness. It is no longer a totally negative thing...