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Krippendorf's Tribe centers around widowed anthropologist James Krippendorf (Richard Dreyfuss) and how, after spending grant money on rearing his dysfunctional children, he is forced to present his findings on the "undiscovered" New Guinea tribe that he was supposed to have used the money to study. The resulting mess that follows is a formulaic farce filled with poor acting, an even poorer script and obnoxious, one-dimensional characters with barely anything sympathetic about them. Occasionally, the film tries to get warm and sweet, but concludes with a contrived and impossible ending. Leaving the theatre, one cannot help feeling that Touchstone...
...League student governments provide varying levels of grant support...
Last spring, Harvard's Undergraduate Council distributed about $23,000 to 90 groups for the second semester, providing a maximum grant of $900 and a minimum...
...League student governments provide varyinglevels of grant support...
TIME's story on the Hollywood Free World Association v. the Motion Picture Alliance for the Preservation of American Ideals indicates no editorial preference for either organization but reveals in comic style an anti-Hollywood bias. We film-makers realize our community is a gorgeous subject for satire. We grant, or anyway most of us do, that we are the world's funniest people. You can write more jokes about us than you can about plumbers, undertakers or Fuller brush salesmen. Hollywood is guilty of deliberate withdrawal from the living world. It seeks to entertain, and we suspect that...