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Poverty of Success. Established wine makers led the planting rush. Paul Masson, a subsidiary of Seagram's, is increasing its grape lands around Monterey by 10,000 acres, an area two-thirds the size of Manhattan. Christian Bros. is uprooting plum orchards in order to plant vines. St. Helena's Louis M. Martini Co. stepped up production by one-fourth last year. "Like most of the family wineries, we are taking out just enough money to live on and plowing the rest back into the business," says Louis P. Martini, son of the founder. "We have never been...
...stage comes to life like an animated family album. Professor Serebryakov (Thayer David), an aged pedant with a book-lined skull, one of the eternal fourth-raters of the life of the mind. His second wife Helena (Elizabeth Owens), a pampered young tigress on a sick old husband's fretful leash. Dr. Astrov (Winston May), pickled in vodka and suffocating in a town that the god of civilization forgot. Uncle Vanya (Sterling Jensen), who has turned his life into bread for the professor and been bitterly cheated of even the crumbs. Sonya, a flower of a girl, blooming without...
There are brilliant moments in the film, moments in which Rafelson has crystallized what-it's-like-now and why-everything-is-so-depressing. Helena Kallianiotes as a dykey hitchhiker who is obsessed with ecology ("All this crap!") and mankind ("Man-man is such a shit! ") is a brilliant parody of an elusive type, the ardent but empty-headed advocate of well-intentioned but flaccid causes. (That she is portrayed as a Lesbian-in fact, that the more insipid characters of the film are women-betrays a nasty truth about the movie.) The bowling, beer, and sex scenes are authentic...
...interlude, however, is entirely free of stylistic ties. On the road, Robert and Rayette pick up two dykey hitchhikers. One is sullen. The other (Helena Kallianiotes) delivers a ten-minute broadside at "man." She hates to disclose her destination (Alaska) because "man" will go up there and make it filthy. Like Nicholson in Easy Rider, Kallianiotes knows how to establish a character swiftly and how to make a running gag gallop. When she is on, the picture is wholly hers. Perhaps it is a characteristic of the new "road" pictures. In which case, the star should have known his fate...
...esque diagrams that he made for his machines. But within a year of its founding, he sold it. He had an idea for a rifle with a revolving chamber and foolishly sold it to Samuel Colt of Hartford for $100. In 1849, Porter tried to promote his old St. Helena airship as a safe way to fly gold rushers to California in three days. The years passed. No one would listen; he was ahead of his time, a crackpot, an eccentric. None of his inventions left a mark, but Porter's portraits and murals remain to testify...