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There has been a movement recently for studios to give freer rein to some promising young directors. This has been based for the most part on the enormous success of George Luca's low-budget American Graffiti. Now other young directors--Marty Scorsese, Terry Matlick, Steven Spielberg,--have made successful first films. But, Altman says, there are not enough. And the studios are still trying to keep their hands on the director's shoulder. "There should be room for more than just these," he says. "And Spielberg, for instance, is still under contract to Universal for about five more years...
...balanced set of Oscars that were handed out last week. The Sting sweep (best picture, best director, best original screenplay, four minor prizes) could have surprised only those who cling to the fantasy that Hollywood's Academicians enjoy rewarding controversy (The Exorcist), truth telling (Cries and Whispers, American Graffiti) or success that is merely modest (A Touch of Class). The best-actor and best-actress choices-Jack Lemmon and Glenda Jackson-were also safe and sane. He is a popular local boy; she is a remote great lady winning her second Oscar in three years. Youth and age were...
...torture of having nowhere to turn to avoid wasting your life causes a hollowness that is in evidence almost everywhere. It is expressed in a single sentence found on a graffiti-covered wall of the set. One might find it chalked onto some subway door or billboard in the city: "I was here but I disappear...
Some citizens seek escape in the wave of nostalgia for the 1950s or earlier. By the millions, they crowd into movies like American Graffiti and The Sting. They enthusiastically applaud the Andrews Sisters, the World War II singing sensations, whose songs are hot again and who will open on Broadway next month in a musical, Over Here...
...demonstrations; there was rioting when The Mothers of Invention opened a concert yelling "Up against the wall, motherfuckers"; Tom Hayden was running the Michigan Daily, Hare Krishna and Seventh Day Adventist freaks panhandled in the streets and fought with each other for converts, storefronts were going psychedelic and the graffiti bespoke anarchy...