Word: hellings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Snarling engines. Dark goggles. Billowing dust. Hell's Angels in California? No, Viet Nam, where the U.S. military, never tiring in its search for methods to find an elusive enemy, has just added the motorcycle to the hunter's inventory that has, at one time or other, included such exotica as people-sniffing bedbugs, infra-red photography and side-looking radar...
They call themselves "Nam's Angels,"* but aside from one swastika that appeared on a crash helmet (it was ordered rubbed off), there is little of the Hell's Angel type in the four young soldiers. Their helmets are camouflaged, they carry .45s, and instead of leather gear, they wear flak jackets and fatigues. "Back in the world," as they refer to the U.S., they all grew up around engines, and Viet Nam has never seemed so like home...
...have no Pushkins. In fact, we have very few revolutionaries. What Harvard has succeeded in producing in amazing numbers is Lermontovs, tinhorns with bullhorns, revolutionaries for the hell of it, motivated not by issues (though social ills are as real now as they were in Imperial Russia) but by guilt and boredom. They should see this play; they should see Lermontov's affectations, his need to sidestep reality and play back events as he would rather have seen them, his relentless desire to make a martyr of himself. They should see--but only if they have the honesty...
Please Come. Or are they? Stanley Kramer, whose films have won nearly 100 nominations, admits: "Frankly, the people in the Academy don't know what the hell they're voting for. Not any more than a clothing salesman from Dayton, Ohio." Paramount's production chief Robert Evans concurs: "There are people in the Academy who haven't worked in years. How can they know what the industry is about anymore?" Perhaps Joseph Mankiewicz is correct when he says: "A film academy that includes financiers and publicity men and does not include Fellini, Bergman and Truffaut...
Down in Europe Seville fell Nations germinating hell...