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Yasujiro Ouzu's Autumn Afternoon (sometimes titled The Taste of Mackerel) is, quite, simply, a masterpiece. Its muted color and rigorously simple camerawork are consistently a joy to watch, and its emotional insight into post-war Japan is consistently moving. Little more could be said without delving into the intricate simplicity of this wonderful film...
...James Laurence Fly became the FCC's first fighting chairman. He initiated reform of horizontally expanding networks; he established a precedent by which station owners at license renewal time would have to face a hearing and competitive bidding; and he compared the National Association of Broadcasters to "dead mackerel in the moonlight...it both shines and stinks." Not intimidated by politicians, Fly also resisted pressure from the Dies HUAC, which claimed that two FCC underlings had been associated with Communist front organizations...
...Chairman Fly compared the NAB To "dead mackerel in the moonlight...it both shines and stinks...
That myth was nurtured in postwar fiction like Sloan Wilson's The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit and John Marquand's Point of No Return: it was caricatured by such writers as Max Shulman (Rally Round the Flag, Boys!) and Peter De Vries (The Mackerel Plaza), elaborated more darkly in John Cheever's Bullet Park. The stereotype was neither wholly wrong nor wholly accurate. But those who have taken the trouble to look carefully have recognized that suburbia has been steadily changing. Today the demographic realities are radically different from the cliché, a change that...
...totally the actor's fault. If Ah, Wilderness is to succeed it must do so because of a director who recognizes the play's defeets and works assiduously to surmount them. Thomas Grucnewald has not only overlooked the play's weaknesses, he has made them shine like a rotten mackerel. The whole produciton becomes a litany of praise for conventional values against the challenge of art and change as envisioned by a failed poet through three manhattans at a Grosse Point cocktail party. The conception of a production is the director's task and, if nostalgia is what Mr. Gruenewald...