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...result is an engrossing film but failed journalism. This week the PBS Special is a revival of the 1965 off-Broadway work Hogan's Goat, which gave the world Faye Dunaway. Faye is back, and, while William Alfred's blank-verse melodrama about turn-of-the-century Irish-American politics may not be a stage classic, it is a rich adornment to the 19-in. screen. THIS WEEK aims to avoid the primarily headline news service of the commercial networks and to concentrate its entire half-hour on one story. The anchor man is Bill Moyers, previously Lyndon...
Jack Jefferson enrages the country not only because he has wrested the title from an Irish-American but because he has acquired a Caucasian mistress, Eleanor (Jane Alexander). A great copper statue of a man, Jefferson cannot be legitimately toppled. But he can be melted down legally. Arrested on a rigged Mann Act violation, the champ jumps bail and flees to Europe. There the bruiser becomes the bruised. The retreat starts in alcoholism and ends in a Budapest café where with aching symbolism he "lawzy me's" his way through the role of Uncle Tom on a tiny...
...WHEN AN Irish-American playwright with a tragic soul begins to write comedy, the result is likely to be sentimenality of the worst sort. Ah, Wilderness is that type of play, fare fit for George M. Cohan, perhaps, but hardly the most relevant thing for a post-Beckett audience...
...university ties, however, came late in life, and basically he remains a Cambridge resident, a "townie." He grew up in the poor part of the city, the son of an Irish welder. Following what has become an almost cliched Irish-American script, he went to St. Mary's High School here and took his orders as a Benedictine monk. When his father died in 1966 he left the priesthood and turned briefly to business before entering politics. He is presently Chairman of the Cambridge Model Cities program, one of the most successful in the nation...
This conclusion is the result of some forty-odd year of being black in a white society: but its immediate cause is the killing of an unarmed black teenager by an Irish-American policeman. The policeman, cited on two separate occasions for bravery, says the youth attacked him with a penknife. He pumped five bullets into the teenager's chest. No knife is ever found. Browning (and black America) recognizes the killing for what it is: cold-blooded murder. His faith in the country completely shattered, he arranges through the Mafia a contract for the policeman's death...