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...with his felt-tip pen any anatomical displays that trouble him. "They call me the mad brassiere artist," says he. Other papers have for years had policies banning or limiting adult-film advertising, among them the Detroit News, Cleveland Plain Dealer and Miami Herald. Wrote Herald Executive Editor John McMullan last June in welcoming the new puritan revival: "A newspaper, after all, is only a guest in your home...
EXTREME CLOSE-UP is a lubricous, opportunistic piece of business about a TV newsman (James McMullan) who gets hooked on surveillance equipment and turns into a very well-equipped Peeping Tom. The writer, Michael Crichton (The Andromeda Strain) and the director, Jeannot Szwarc (whose previous credits include no features but a great many episodes on TV shows like Marcus Welby and Ironsides), affect a certain air of importance and urgency...
...seaminess that says less about the hero's obsessions than the hang-ups of the film mak ers, who stage each detail of erotic dalliance even more fondly than the newsman spies on it. The cast is hopelessly eager to please and includes, be sides the continually perspiring McMullan, several young women who reveal various portions of their anatomy with the zeal of go-go dancers taking a last shot at the big time...
Misissippi Power and Light is deeply involved in the economic and political structure of the state. William P. McMullan and Alex McKeigny, both directors of the company, are leaders of the Jackson Citizens' Council. Other officials, Robert M. Hearin and Alex Rogers, are members of the staff of Mississippi Governor Paul B. Johnson. Mississippi Power and Light also shares several directors with the Deposit Guaranty Bank and Trust Company of Jackson and the First National Bank of Jackson, the two largest banks in the state. Many of the bank officials, in turn, are members of the Citizens' Council...
...hour plane trip to Frankfurt nearly finished the newsmen before the fun began. Grumbled City Editor John McMullan of the Miami Herald: "It's insane to go all this distance for a beer." But the newsmen rallied to go out on the town, happily gawked at bare-breasted stripteasers, encountered flocks of B-girls ("Darling, ees eet hokay eef I have anod-der veeskie?"), and learned to down the whisky bamby: a $5 wallop of orange and pineapple juice built around a big dollop of Scotch...