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Harvard has always been a nursery school for the arts; it trained art expert Bernard Berenson, who later fell in love with the smiling ladies of the Italian Renaissance, and inspired Isabella Stewart Gardner, a Boston matron who attended Charles Eliot Norton's fine arts lectures only to become one of the most eccentric patrons of the arts and builder of her own gargoyled museum. And now, the Fogg Art Museum is boasting its proud parentage of another avid student. Joseph Pulitzer, Jr. '36, grandson of the founder of the St. Louis Post Dispatch and the Pulitzer prizes...
...greatest problem is money. California industrialist Norton Simon is his sole major contributor, coming with around $40,000. McCloskey has had to turn elsewhere to supplement these funds. An ad in a recent New York Times proclaimed: "Pete McCloskey would rather have his campaign financed by 10,000 people who want to participate directly than by a few big spenders. It's an old-fashioned, Democratic idea...
...grungy, evocative Los Angeles locations (diners, the back streets of housing developments), but the action is too episodic to sustain interest. Despite this, and an absurd denouement better suited to the pages of a Marvel comic book, there are indications throughout that Writer-Director Bill L. Norton was up to something more than just another movie about youth and hard knocks...
...Norton is especially good at conveying the casual desperation of someone scuffling along the fringes of show biz, biding his time and hoping for a break. Some of his scenes have the unhurried air of good improvisation. Others are burdened by some awfully thick dialogue. At one point, Cisco's girl (Karen Black) demands, "It's me or dealing; make up your mind...
Cisco Pike has the mismatched, haphazard look of a film that was toyed around with in the editing. It is almost as if someone struggled to keep it in a mold that Norton was trying to break...