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...portrayed as sensitive loner types: they know grass isn't addictive: they're nice to girls: they wouldn't hurt anybody. The bad guys are resentful barbarians, who pick on the good guys for no reason and make stupid jokes ("They look like a bunch of refugees from a gorilla love-in.") Easy Rider's tacked-on message, built to remit all intellectual sins, reminds one in its ludicrousness of Hollywood's concept of the "anti-war" film. Inevitably these films will conclude with a ringing condemnation of war; but that conclusion is undermined by the horrifying argument that...

Author: By Joel Haycock, | Title: The Moviegoer Easy Rider at the Charles Street Cinema | 9/24/1969 | See Source »

...Brandeis, surely the best university theatre around, two productions have been set for the first term. The first of these is the World Premiere of a new play, Hannalore, by Jere Admire. Admire is an ex-Broadway musical chorus dancer (He did over a thousand performances as the dancing gorilla in Cabaret ) turned dramatic actor (His first serious role was as Emory in the national company of Boys in the Band, seen here last spring) turned playwright. His play will be followed by the Sophocles Antigone...

Author: By Frank Rich, | Title: The New Boston Theatre Season: The Good, the Bad, and the Loeb | 9/22/1969 | See Source »

...portrayed as sensitive loner types: they know grass isn't addictive; they're nice to girls; they wouldn't hurt anybody. The bad guys are resentful barbarians, who pick on the good guys for no reason and make stupid jokes ("They look like a bunch of refugees from a gorilla love-in.") Easy Rider's tacked-on message, built to remit all intellectual sins, reminds one in its ludicrousness of Hollywood's concept of the "antiwar" film. Inevitably these films will conclude with a ringing condemnation of war; but that conclusion is undermined by the horrifying argument that has gone...

Author: By Joel Haycock, | Title: Easy Rider | 8/12/1969 | See Source »

...time Director Hopper let the townspeople "rap" as they pleased, then caught them on camera. The result is a harrowing gallery of American primitives, from mindless high-school girls to the redneck truck drivers who case the cyclists' long hair and ad-lib: "Looks like refugees from some gorilla love-in . . . We ought to mate 'em up with . . . black wenches. That...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Movies: Space Odyssey 1969 | 7/25/1969 | See Source »

After finishing their show, the "Gorilla Band" led a march that wound its way through University Hall's southern corridor, out and around John Harvard, and back through the northern corridor. Several of the marchers remarked that they felt claustrophobic--their last exeperience in University Hall having been somewhat less than pleasant...

Author: By Jerald R. Gerst, | Title: Mimes Thrill Yard | 4/18/1969 | See Source »

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