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Nixon's apparent unawareness of the program was disclosed by Tom Huston, 34, reputed author of the 1970 White House plan that proposed illegal break-ins, wiretaps and mail intercepts to counteract radical activity. The plan, he now concedes, was largely irrelevant because the CIA had already adopted many of those practices. "If we had known all these tools were being used and were still not getting results," said Huston, "it might have changed our whole approach." Mainly because of the opposition of FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover and Attorney General John Mitchell, the plan was rejected by Nixon...
...Huston still defended these practices in the context of the tumultuous 1960s. What had worried him was "revolutionary violence . . . the lives and property of people who were being subjected to violence, the 20,000 bombings that occurred in one year and the 39 police officers who were killed." The White House was also worried that the violence might be partially directed or funded from abroad. Yet the FBI, in the opinion of the President's men, did not seem to be making a sufficient effort to establish the connection...
Poor Tessa Dahl. In December she won the only female role in John Huston's The Man Who Would Be King -that of a femme fatale. But no sooner had Patricia Meal's 17-year-old daughter dashed off to a fat farm to slim down by 20 Ibs. than she was replaced. It seems the scriptwriters had trouble working a Caucasian into the Asian epic. Instead, the role went to Shakira Baksh, 27, the Indian wife of Michael Caine, 41, who is co-starring in the movie now on location in Marrakesh. Said Caine...
...Watergate doesn't stand in isolation. There were a lot of other things going on of the same nature such as the Huston plan [to use break-ins, wiretaps and other illegal means to spy within the U.S.] and the Ellsberg breakin. Remember this: we had to show relevancy for every taped conversation that we obtained by subpoena. Were we so good that we got everything there was? Watergate goes back to the nature...
...African Queen is one of the most fun experiences there is--and worth seeing on the big screen in color if you've only seen it in the box up til now. Made in 1951 in England by Sam Spiegel and director John Huston, about an African river trip in 1915. C.S. Forester's book is laughable, but Bogart and Hepburn--who somehow built up one of the most exciting rapports ever on film (they really seem to understand each other in a larger way as film characters)--turn James Agee's script into something literate as well as movie...