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...BONS DEBARRAS easily could have emerged from the studio ugly, depressing, and boring. Instead, director Mankiewicz has fashioned a film of lyrical and penetrating beauty. His diverse, lovely palette of lights and shades, broad afternoons and black nights, breathes freshness into every shot of a limited setting. His magnificent cast infuses humdrum, rather sad low-lifers with humor and elegance. Set in the Laurentian Mountains of Quebec and filmed in late fall and early winter, Les Bons Debarras (Good Riddance) possesses a certain steamily frosty quality, like the view through a window breathed on in January...
...adapted from Shakespeare's plays between 1899 and 1929, there are ten versions of Caesar, the first being a French effort of 1907. In the half century since 1929, about 50 sound films have been made, including three of Caesar, all American. The straightforward 1953 version, directed by Joseph Mankiewicz--with James Mason's Brutus, John Gielgud's Cassius. Marlon Brando's Antony, and the late Louis Calhern's Caesar--remains the only excellent Shakespearean film ever done in our country (and few people know that its off-camera crowd roars in the stadium were specially recorded by a huge...
...commission's own findings that the noncommercial sector is "disproportionately needy." Only one of the commission's original 20 members comes directly from the radio industry. While advocating a growth of radio stations in the country, the commission fails to provide the needed funds. Edward Elson and Frank Mankiewicz, chairman and president of National Public Radio, respectively, have denounced Carnegie II for its strong financial biases...
...Frank Mankiewicz, president of National Public Radio, a network of 217 stations, doubts that these stations, which lack TV's glamour, could ever attract much money from listeners. "It's hard to get an audience for fund raising," he says, "let alone raise the funds." For NPR, the matching grant scheme could be a death sentence...
...Neither Mankiewicz nor the other critics need worry, however, at least not for the moment. Congress and the President will have the final decision, and they may take their time before acting on this large but disappointing report...