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...taken directly from Malamud's story. Mostel is especially entertaining doing the tailor-on-the-roof routine that is his forte. But even Zero's comic genius cannot carry the lugubrious sermonizing about black-Jewish relationships and the mawkish comedy that goes with it. In a reverse insult, Levine calls Mishkin "nigger," to which Mishkin replies, "This is the way a Jewish angel talks...
...ultimate insult is to state that we are envious of the present young generation. Of a generation so incredibly naive that it equates fornication with love, liberty with license, freedom with selfishness; a generation so irrationally hypocritical that it gets stoned on pot while decrying air pollution, screams "Get out of Viet Nam" while advocating arms for Israel, and expresses disgust with the profit-making Establishment while greedily wasting its parents' money on luxury items made by this Establishment; a generation so arrogantly self-centered that it has no belief in anything but what it sees, no respect...
...State Senator Jay Hammond says. The great?and fragile?land is patently incapable of holding an unlimited number of people. Most planners believe that twice as many people as now may well be quite enough. The old theory that Alaska's sheer size and emptiness can absorb any insult without ill effect has by now been disproved by all too many examples. Instead, new growth must be selective and controlled...
Myra Breckinridge is about as funny as a child molester. It is an insult to intelligence, an affront to sensibility and an abomination to the eye. Based on Gore Vidal's sordid little sex-change novel, the movie took nine months and at least $5,000,000 to make and spawned more tales of cast warfare than any film since The Night of the Iguana. The result is an incoherent tale of sodomy, emasculation, autoeroticism and plain bad taste...
Filial Devotion. Wayne crooned on TV, on records, in nightclubs. Not that everyone was wild about him. As he recalls: "We had a lot of people insult us and tell us to get out of the business. In Las Vegas we even had people throw things...