Word: madnesses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...pretentiousness of Eugenia Collier in the Sunday Times two weeks ago. Sarris attacked what he called "UNESCO-inclined critics," proclaiming that those who like Conrack (and other more-or-less "message" movies, including Sounder and Hoa Binh) are hopeless much-headed idealists, overwhelmed by uplift. But the critics Mad Andrew wrote about are figments of his imagination, since the only famous critics who praised the film (Kael and Kauffmann) are rigorous, not at all the "melting marsh-mallows" of his bile-ridden column. Sarris took potshots at the actual Conroy as well as at the film and its defenders, vaguely...
...film does have problems. But they have little to do with race, liberality or mushiness. Ritt, Ravetch and Frank revel in the grotesque. The school superintendent and principal (glosses of groups of figures from Conroy's book) are educational Bull Connors. More interesting characters, like the island's hermit Mad Billie, and a fast-talking island slicker named Quickfellow, have neither history nor room for growth. The filmmakers also fail to develop some intriguing themes: Conroy must have influenced his children's lives beyond the classroom, but when their usually stand-offish parents strike to protest Conroy's dismissal, there...
...Sweetheart, the first full-length biography of Pickford, published this week, Author Robert Windeler tots up Mary's present fortune to more than $50 million, the result of astute salary bargaining and real estate investments. At 81, Mary has a long memory about money. She got really mad at Old Friend and Rival Charlie Chaplin only when, in 1956, he sold his share of United Artists (the company formed by Mary, Doug, Charlie and D.W. Griffith) without giving her first refusal. Told recently that Charlie had mellowed, Mary was unforgiving. "That's all very well," said America...
...friend have been killed in his line of duty. It does not take too much exposure to Rice's strength and magnetism to weaken Cable's loyalty to his bosses. The process is accelerated by the love of an energetic female photographer who is also on the "mad moon man" tour...
...This is just not the time to have to deal with two-dimensional lizards becoming three-dimensional, or columns that turn from convex into concave, or water flowing up the side of a building, or fishes mutating into birds, or any of the other visual contradictions that his mad-genius mind came up with. Escher works best for sane people with clear, analytical minds. All others (and that includes most of us) confront him at our own risk...