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...wrote that vociferous letter in response to Janet Maslin's article entitled "From Hits to Misses, But Why?" in which Maslin discusses the sophomore jinx that allegedly plagues successful rookie directors...
...Maslin contends that Lee succumbed to "fiscal seductions" and that the musical numbers in Daze were beyond Lee's "technical abilities." Maslin also says that while She's Gotta Have It was "enjoyable small," Daze, which she called "bigger, bolder" in her original review, was a failure. She's Gotta Have It, Maslin writes, "may not have aimed this high, but on the other hand it hit its mark...
...MASLIN'S argument isn't scintillating and she doesn't come to any valid conclusions. Second movies are often bad. So what? Maslin is not our most perspicacious movie critic (she rhapsodized over John Hughes' last teen flick, Some Kind of Wonderful). But writing for The Newspaper has certain responsibilities. One of those is not to make potentially racist suggestions, like the one that Black directors should limit themselves to making movies about sex. She insinuates that Lee should go back to where he came from--back to low budget, back to struggling...
These frenzied efforts at spin control seem ludicrous seven months before the Iowa caucuses. But politics craves winners and losers, regardless of evidence. That explains the headlines generated by a debate focus group of 87 Iowa Democrats conducted by Hickman-Maslin, a Democratic polling firm unaffiliated with any presidential campaign. Their verdict: Dukakis, Gephardt and Simon gained ground, while Babbitt lost long yardage. Of course, such a tiny and far from representative sample is hardly conclusive. But in the game of momentum this Iowa focus group may turn out to have more political weight than its statistical worth...
...prompted by growing fears over the Japanese economic threat. This time around, presidential candidates may feel compelled to prove their moxie on trade. "It is clear that people do feel there is not a fair, level playing field and that they want something done about it," says Pollster Paul Maslin, who has ties to the Hart campaign. The political problem for all candidates is to develop remedies that are simple enough to be understandable, tough enough to be credible, yet permissive enough to satisfy a nation that cherishes its Japanese cars, Korean televisions and Italian shoes...