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FILM-MAKERS who are also Harvard students eventually encounter a difficult subject: the Harvard Experience. Film being a means of self-expression, kids rightly want their films to be about what most affects them and what they know best. Movies with other subjects-gangster films, horror films-end up as hollow parodies because student directors have no personal involvement in the concerns of the genre...
...executions. According to one informant, who was a charter member, the first squad was organized in 1958. It was a tightly knit group of 16 policemen who rubbed out an average of a hood a week for six years. When their most famous member was finally killed by a gangster, the squad stayed together long enough to avenge his death (the gangster's body was ravaged by some 100 slugs), then gradually went out of business...
Raquel's next projects are Shipment of Tarts, a period comedy, Tilda, a story of a woman chasing her kidnaped son, and We Only Kill Each Other, a biography of Chicago Gangster Bugsy Siegel and his moll Virginia Hill. The roles are hardly calculated to win Academy Awards, but at least they call for more than pouts and poses. "I feel people are trying to bury me in a sea of C cups," she laments. There is little likelihood that she will go under. "Marilyn couldn't fight it because she wasn't strong enough," Raquel theorizes...
Have you heard the one about the hippies, the mobsters, the convicts, the politician, the warden, the moll', LSD, the balloon and the gangster chief called "God"? Well, that's it. End of joke. It's called Skidoo, and the only conceivable reasons to see it are 1) to hear each and every credit, from cameraman to copyright date, sung on the sound track; 2) to see actors like Jackie Gleason, Carol Channing, Burgess Meredith, Peter Lawford and even Groucho Marx make fools of themselves; and 3) just to believe that it exists. Ostensibly a comedy, Skidoo...
British envoy Charley Whitlock flew to the island March 11 and was expelled he said, at gunpoint. Whitlock charged that Anguilla was "completely dominated by a gangster-type element ... somehow like the Mafia...