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...acquired positions at Time and Newsweek held by tougher fellows long ago--James Agee and John O'Hara. Or, why doesn't Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. deem film important enough to bring some of his secular history to it to make for a relevant panache? And why did Joseph Morgenstern, one of the best of the lot, one of the few with human concerns broader than Panavision, drop films to write social commentary. Perhaps I know the answer to that one. Perhaps he wanted to preserve his conscience and sanity from a film context too generally frivolous...
...Kael [the New Yorker critic], Morgenstern [ Newsweek ] and Hollis Alpert [ Saturday Review ] were all in one room in New York watching the picture last night. I nearly had a heart attack..." He started to lean over, his eyes bright and watery: "Is that a banana split or isn't it?" He paused and looked down at his feet, then looked up and said, in imitation of the manner of Busby Berkeley heroes: "Man, that's box office...
...lasted to this day. Basically, the problem is one of attitude. In the face of threats from the "power brokers," Lindsay asserts principle; labor leaders call it inflexibility and priggishness. "It's this upper-white-class Protestant ethic that gives him a feeling of moral superiority," says Martin Morgenstern, head of the Social Service Employes Union. "He's like the white knight come to save...
...journal that then housed such nouvelle vague cineasts as Jean-Luc Godard and Claude Chabrol. Truffaut proved so corrosive a critic that in 1958 he was banned from the Cannes Film Festival and forced to snipe at targets he could not see. What he could see, however, was Madeleine Morgenstern, daughter of a film executive whose products had received Truffaut's hardest knocks. After they were married, Truffaut continued his criticism, this time at the family dinner table. In exasperation, Papa Morgenstern challenged his son-in-law to make films as good as the ones he criticized-and provided...
Culture at 7:30 a.m. Beverly Hills High gets relatively few children of Hollywood stars. Many are whisked off to boarding schools for "convenience." The result makes Beverly all the more stable. Psychologist Morgenstern finds delinquency almost unknown: "We don't have the acting-out kids, the shove-it-up kids, the violently self-assertive kids." Beverly's main problem is that such homogeneous isolation removes it a bit from the real world...