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...original Homestead Act, passed in 1862, offered free Western land to tens of thousands of people bottled up in the East and helped to change the face of America. Last month another Homestead Act was passed in Philadelphia-not so far-reaching as the first, perhaps, but dramatic in its implications. It urges people not to go West to open land but to stay East, as it were, in the troubled heart of the ghetto. The city is selling abandoned houses for $1 apiece to anybody of limited income who is willing to fix up one of them and live...
...impossible to determine exactly who receives more contempt and abuse, the people in the movies or the ones watching them. L'Amour ("presented" by Warhol, written and directed by Warhol and his protege Morrissey) features the wrecking crew from The Factory, Warhol's New York homestead, transported to Paris, where they scratch and stammer through a plot that might be a low-camp rewrite of La Ronde. Michael (Michael Sklar) and Max (Max Delys) are lovers. Michael, wanting to get married for appearances only, becomes involved with Donna (Donna Jordan), while Max makes lanolin passes at Jane (Jane...
...about to rid the mortgage business of the common demand for baby letters. Independently, three national women's groups have taken up the cause and have filed a complaint with the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. The question it poses: Must some women mortgage the cradle to get the homestead...
...near Times Square (funny on the face of it, no?), and much of the action passes in an Italian restaurant where the Puerto Rican headwaiter is tricked out to look like a cowboy. The autograph hound is Benny Walsh, a busboy at a big Broadway restaurant called the Homestead. His girl friend Gloria burbles about cottages for two, aspires to break into show biz, but acts in skin flicks. What Aristotle would call the complication is simplicity itself: Benny, who is about to lose his job, has a chance to put in a fix with the head of his union...