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...real gem McCall's staff dreamed up, though, was a program of sending"negative greeting cards" to tourists, prospective immigrants, and anyone who contemplated moving to, or even visiting Oregon. However, the cards were only half serious--most of them emphasized the heavy rains Oregonians experience each year--and they probably backfired by actually drawing attention to the state's pristine beauty...
There is not much more you can say about this program; either the idea of funning around with the porno genre appeals to you or it does not. At least one short is a real gem: "Bach to Bach," with the voices of Mike Nichols and Elaine May. While the camera takes you on a guided tour of the ornaments in a New York apartment, you hear a man and a woman who have picked each other up in a bar and are now trading a series of cocktail party inanities to ward off their nervousness about the whole affair...
...editor who has already gone a romantic round one with this woman reporter, is a perfect compliment; his witty rejoinders and awshucks mugging are irresistible, but you know he'd be unfaithful again in a minute. And not that this film needs anything more to make it a gem, but Howard Hawks' recreation and direction of a late thirties newspaper crew is perfection...
...Rare Gem...
Your Amy cover [Feb. 7] is beautiful. Don't try to repeat it-you never will. Go on printing the ugly-faced politicians-then Amy will stand out in the year's collection as a rare gem...