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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Colvin: We certainly do dispute it . . . The ultimate fact in this case, no matter how you turn it, is that Mr. Bakke was deprived of an opportunity to attend the school by reason of his race. This is not a matter of conjecture. This is a stipula tion by the Regents of the University of California...
Gerhard Casper, University of Chicago Law School: "I assume the Supreme Court will try to come down with a very narrow ruling in the Bakke case. But whether it will rule in favor of Mr. Bakke, I just don't know. The case is one of the most explosive ever, with great implications. The country is not ready to have the case decided yet. The court does not want to impose its will on the people when it will leave a large part of the country unhappy either...
LOOKING FOR MR. GOODBAR. Directed and Written by Richard Brooks
Writer-Director Brooks does not seem particularly interested in Keaton's Theresa, even though she appears in every scene. By switching the setting of Looking for Mr. Goodbar to a contemporary Any Town, U.S.A., Brooks has shifted the focus away from its protagonist. The book told the detailed saga of a troubled woman. The movie is a general diatribe against alleged American decadence: Brooks reduces the heroine's psychological background to a few broad strokes so that he can blithely blame her malaise on such irrelevant but cinematic phenomena as strip clubs, gay bars, TV game shows, strobe...
Looking for Mr. Goodbar has narrative lapses, jerky editing and confusing fantasy sequences that look like Ken Russell outtakes. Brooks' idea of style is to shoot Theresa in bright sunlight when she is being a good schoolteacher and in grim shadows when she is bedding down with her rough pickups. Though the movie was shot in color, the director's vision acknowledges only blacks and whites...