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...hear that exposure in your column gave a real boost to the sagging careers of my good friends Steve Lawrence, Eydie Gorme, Don Rickles--ya big dummy, ha, ha--and Rose Marie, and I just thought I'd show you some of my best stuff, in a milieu which hardly lent itself to spontaneous creative expression. Surely, if I throw in the rights to that neutron-bomb joke, we can arrange a little something for the column next week? Besides, it's reading period and all, and the kids need something to lift them out of their doldrums...
...movie is at its sharpest when the action moves from the Upper West Side apartment house where the hero and heroine live to the theatrical demimonde where they work; the theater is a milieu that Ross, an ex-Broadway choreographer, and Simon know uncannily well. In the film's funniest sequence, Elliott opens off-off-Broadway in an outlandishly homosexual production of Shakespeare's Richard III; Ross captures the texture of a disastrous opening night in all its horror, and Dreyfuss's flaming king proves the nuttiest send-up of bad acting since Dick Shawn created...
Herewith some random thoughts on the Harvard sports scene, a milieu I chose to experience this fall strictly as a spectator and not as a journalist, something all you avid Crimson readers may have greatly appreciate...
...obvious effort to regain the sympathy of the CB audience, showing them as socially useful citizens, but they?and everyone else?will have long since discerned the movie's true view of their world. The question is whether the rest of the world will care enough about this milieu to become good buddies with a curious and very original movie. -Richard Schickel
...Club, one member, who wished to remain anonymous, said yesterday, is whether the candidate is "a good guy." Roland A. Hernandez '79, punching chairman of the D.U. Club, said yesterday that his club looks for men who will fit well into the club's existing social milieu...