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Woody Allen and Zero Mostel playing it straight? Director Martin Ritt (Sounder, Hud) has unsmilingly cast the two in Columbia Pictures' The Front, a drama about Hollywood blacklisting in the '50s. For Mostel it's all bitter experience, for he was interrogated by the House Un-American Activities Committee in 1955 and scorned by movie producers for a decade. For Allen, playing a bookie who lets a blacklisted writer use his name, drama is all new, and he claims to be, as usual, nervous. "I can't guarantee the outcome," he says...
...Harper is Ross Macdonald's introverted detective, whose influence is heavily felt in Night Moves (TIME, July 21). Harper is the original Archer, except for his name, which was changed because Newman's most successful movies always had that lucky H in the title (The Hustler, Hud). Newman is generally amusing and attractive to watch, even when he is chomping gum rather than establishing any stronger character points. His role demands only that he ask questions and piece together one of those traditional Macdonald puzzles about sudden death and damaged children...
...have now in the Federal Government something we might call the "Bureau of Asian War, Southeast"-or BAWS. It goes on now like HUD or the FPC resisting, right down to the desperate end, efforts to change it or end it. The Ford Administration seems overpowered by the momentum of the thing, a familiar condition of institutional Washington. It is a rule of thumb that any program that survives ten years is permanent. Our longest war has taken on this characteristic...
Another part of the problem is that the Nixon Administration did not live up to its side of the bargain. It withheld funds from the program, and HUD therefore gave the developers no technical assistance, no planning grants, no help in starting up schools or transit systems. In processing applications for bond guarantees or for federal subsidies for low-income housing, HUD also ensnarled the applicants in reams of unnecessary red tape. "Decisions are made, unmade and obfuscated to a degree that makes the imperial Chinese bureaucracy appear decisive and swift-moving," says Mark Freeman, executive director of the League...
...gains that Frank Fisher thinks he helped to engineer for Colombia are not much greater than the marginal improvements he managed to effect in the percentage of sub-standard units of housing in Chicago when he directed the regional office of HUD in the midwest from 1967 to 1970. Fisher speaks of the end of racial injustice, the development of Colombia, and equality between rich and poor as social ideals that would melt his flinty eyes. "Learning to struggle for unobtainable things, without being cynical, that kind of frame of mind is associated with working in the public concern...