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...passed his dubious prime--in writing and in life. He, like Burgess, has been asked to teach for a year at Manhattan U., ostensibly because of the controversy his film script has created in America. The name of the film, of course, is changed: Enderby has adapted Gerard Manley Hopkins's The Wreck of the Deutschland for the screen, to be produced and directed by Melvin Schaumwein. Chisel Productions. His reasons for the crude adaptation is that the film might lead people to read the poem, which is recognizably better art. But instead, the film, warped by the director...
Directed by PAUL VERHOEVEN Screenplay by GERARD SOETEMAN...
...punk psychotic-that animated the recent French film Going Places (TIME, June 10). Both movies share the same craving for shock value, the same dim idea that freedom and aggressive irresponsibility are the same. Going Places, however, remained anxiously airy throughout. In Turkish Delight, Director Paul Verhoeven and Writer Gerard Soeteman try to yank the rug right out from under the middle of the film, suddenly portraying everything that had seemed gay as a fierce and desperate stall against fate...
...Gerard C. Smith Washington...
...premium must have risen last week. Vice President Jerry Ford stepped up to the first tee at a celebrity golf tournament in suburban Minneapolis and sliced his ball 150 yds. into the rough. It hit a tree, then ricocheted off the left side of the head of Spectator Tom Gerard, 17. Pronounced fit, Gerard, a high school senior, became the fifth survivor of inadvertent vice-presidential assault in recent years. Spiro Agnew beaned three spectators on the links and stunned Golf Pro Doug Sanders in a benefit tourney. Ford had another narrow escape after he had dealt with...