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...crazy, misguided youth at the down of the Nixon years. Goldie Hawn squirms in her miniskirts; flipped-out flower children skinny dip at a pot party; and Beatty, as the highly heterosexual hairdresser George, gets by for language with just muttering "You're beautiful, baby, beautiful." That director Hal Ashby glosses over and thus cheapens this picture of searching sixties youth by painting them only as mixed-up, inarticulate and over-sexed does not seem to bother anyone. It seems that in looking back our generation is already content to play make believe...
...polling booth. And if, as Freud observed, laughter is a release from tension, campaign '76 may provide more merriment than a thousand less ambitious situation comedies. "Nobody feels he has any control, and the only way people participate in governments is by laughing at the candidates," theorizes Hal Goodman, one-half of Johnny Carson's writing team. Adds Larry Klein, the other half: "Laughing is the only form of revolt we have in this country...
...Jews was distinctly surprising, and while it failed to convince, it certainly contributed to the success of the play. No such element of surprise exists in I Have a Dream and Billy Dee Williams' performance has a snake oil slickness that robs it of the craggy integrity that Hal Holbrook brought to Mark Twain, or Henry Fonda to Clarence Darrow. The idea of having a character who is seemingly Coretta King (Judyann Elder), deliver lengthy asides on the ideals of King violates another internal law of drama: never explain - always reveal...
Kansas City Royals Manager Whitey Herzog watched from the dugout as baseball's two leading hitters took batting practice. The air crackled as Hal McRae (.351) and George Brett (.344) sprayed hits from one foul line to the other, then back again. "Looks like fun, doesn't it?" said Herzog...
...Hal Troeger Grand...