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Feminist Gloria Steinem was quick to take offense at what she called "Jock-ocracy." She saw the failure to guarantee equal funds for women's sports as a commitment to "equality if it doesn't cost anything." In Michigan, Jo Jacobs of the Committee to Study Sex Discrimination...
Died. Sholom Secunda, 79, versatile composer of 1,000 popular songs; of cancer; in Manhattan. Already famed as a cantor, Secunda at the age of eight emigrated to the U.S. from Russia, later graduated from Juilliard. In 1932 he whipped up Bel Mir Bistu Schein while sitting on a New...
Based very loosely on Dostoevsky's short novel, The Double, Partner tries to examine the life of a young drama teacher named Jacob (Pierre Clementi) and his alter ego (also named Jacob, also played by Clementi) whom he meets in an outdoor public urinal after he tries to kill himself...
Bertolucci claims to be a committed Marxist filmmaker, but his commitment seems only so much cant when it finds expression only in flags and protest posters. The guillotine in Partner is not a symbol of misogyny, not revolution. Heavily involved in the Theater of Cruelty, one of the Jacobs says...
John Boorman is always after something new. Much of his work (Having a Wild Weekend, Deliverance) has been a remolding of traditional genres-the musical or adventure film-to suit a more personal, sometimes dour vision. For example, he and Screenwriter Alexander Jacobs transformed Point Blank from an ordinary gangster...