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...these days without Elliott Gould. As Alfred, a photographer who specializes in snapshots of excrement, he is your average apathetic male set upon by a conventionally aggressive female named Patsy (Marcia Rodd). Her pursuit of Alfred is typical Feiffer: overpowering feminity frustrated by Silly Putty masculinity. Her father (Vincent Gardenia) bellows like the urban Babbitt he is while Mom amuses Alfred with pictures of her dead son. Another sibling snivels around the apartment in sexual ambiguity...
Gave up on the unsold gardenia...
...York family that has seen all its time-honored moral standards eroded by the endless stream of "little murders" (snipings in the street, air pollution, obscene phone calls, power failures) that make up that existence that passes for life in the sixties. The father, Carol Newquist (played by Vincent Gardenia), asserts his masculinity by claiming to be able to spot fags "a mile away"--yet is paranoid about his first name and fails to notice that his own son is a raving queer. His daughter, Patsy (Carole Shelly), has ten people working under her; she is so successful that...
...fine production directed by Alan Arkin. It's a disturbing and wildly funny work about snipers, obscene phone calls, air pollution, masturbation, hippie religion, and a photographer who takes pictures of shit--among other things. Andrew Duncan and Linda Lavin have just left the cast, but Vincent Gardenia and the stunning Elizabeth Wilson are among those who remain. At the CIRCLE-IN-THE-SQUARE, 159 Bleeker...
After the Coleman verdict, five Lowndes Negroes led by Mrs. Gardenia White filed suit in federal court charging that County Jury Commissioner Bruce Crook, two associates, and Mrs. Kelley Coleman, clerk of the local circuit court (and Tom's cousin by marriage) had violated the 14th Amendment's equal protection and due process clauses. Last week the three-judge court in Montgomery upheld the Negroes' complaint, found Lowndes County guilty of "gross, systematic exclusion of members of the Negro race from jury duty." Though 80.7% of the county's 15,417 population is Negro, the court...