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...examination of cultural dissolution and personal disillusion does much to restore the film to its proper stature-as a souvenir of a time already in recession. Sooner than anyone imagines, The Guru will serve to remind audiences of that peculiar, irretrievable time when Mod dogs and Englishmen went out in the noonday...
...GUESS that if Universal has Connie under contract that means she is going to be in another movie sometime. I saw her on their lot in California in March and she said she thought so and hoped so. She came into the room wearing mod shoes, a mini-skirt, and a chiffon thin blouse with nothing under it. I thought, My God, like in the magazine, she had broken her fingernail, she said, which was funny to think of because it is so cute a crisis for a starlet to have broken a fingernail. Then she did herself one better...
Harrelson, wearing his usual mod outfit that has made him one of Boston's more flamboyant heroes, told a press conference that it was not economically feasible to leave Boston. Harrelson is involved in business dealings worth three-quarters of a million dollars...
...Line. Though they do not lug revolvers and they frequently debate quitting the force, the Mod Squadders are in fact good TV cops. When they catch a criminal, usually after a long chase, they beat him up as thoroughly as do the toughest TV heroes. Nor is the series always soft on hippies. In one episode, the Modders go to the aid of an underground paper only to discover that the scheming hippie editor had bombed and wrecked the paper himself to attract publicity and expose "police indifference." Still, the actors try for a modicum of realism. When one script...
...rage for relevance often seems to induce the opposite effect: the more programs strive to be with it, the farther they veer from recognizable life. The view of youth as a vast criminal conspiracy relieved only by Mod Squad's undercover trio is hardly building bridges over the generation gap. Yet TV seems content to maintain the myth-until a new one comes along...