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...major policy issues, while avoiding the details that can suffocate an executive who fails to delegate. It also has a huge disadvantage: it leaves him dangerously vulnerable to poor work by aides, whom he rarely criticizes. Says a former California assistant: "Ronald Reagan has never even disciplined a maid...
...Mountain Men concerns a trapper (Charlton Heston) who in a battle with a band of Blackfeet acquires an Indian maid (Victoria Racimo). For the rest of the film her Indian master (Stephen Macht) and Heston have at each other for possession of the lady, yet the struggle is not developed with much style. There is none of the menace and mystery that attended a similar conflict in Robert Redford's 1972 Jeremiah Johnson, which also dealt with the trappers who first explored the West. Brian Keith is at his best as Heston's raffish companion. But Heston seems...
...save an inferior screenplay with their almost uniformly excellent performances. But bad editing also diminishes the impact their talents have on the film. These problems riddle the scenes between O'Keefe and Stan Shaw, who plays Toomer, a stuttering Black "boy" who, together with his mother, the Meechum's maid, and 14 or so large German shepherd dogs trained to attack white folks, lives in a trailer on the outskirts of the town...
...however: the treatment of the race problem is offensive. The Blacks in the film are ridiculously stereotyped; Toomer, known as a "boy," even to young Meechum, who is portrayed as one of Toomer's closest friends; Toomer's mother, an enormous Black woman who loves her job as a maid, and is obsequious in her gratitude toward Mee chum for going out late one night to help Toomer defend himself against some local budding Klansmen. Carlino destroys the impact of the protest against the treatment of Blacks by portraying the grateful nigger, grateful to the white men who have made...
...first Baron Leconfield, for instance, undertook to photograph "all the dear servants at Petworth, 1860, when I came there." They include the butler, the underbutler, the park keeper, the keeper of the stallions, the coachman, the housekeeper. Lord Leconfield's valet, Lady Leconfield's maid, the French cook, the first groom of the chambers, and so on. Big houses often had as many as 50 people working downstairs. Yet strange as it may appear to the modern eye, the servants have the same look of calm self-assurance as the masters: if the castes exchanged clothes, it would...