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Monkey Business. It's gotten so that I don't like to watch the Marx Brothers M-G-M extravaganzas anymore, with their water-ballets and cupie-doll tenor heroes thrown in among the more or less emasculated brothers. So Monkey Business from the tacky Paramount days comes as blessed relief, reaffirmation and so on. It is wonderful. This is the one where Groucho, Chico and most importantly Harpo all do imitations of Maurice Chevalier singing "Eef a Nightengale Cood Sin Lak You" and where Grouch announces that "love goes out the door when money comes innuendo". The script...
...Running a major studio is more difficult than running a small country," Paramount Production Boss Robert Evans once observed. Now, after three failed marriages (including one to Actress Ali MacGraw) and a string of box office successes (Godfather I and II, Chinatown, Rosemary's Baby, Love Story), Evans is abdicating his Paramount throne. This week Evans, 44, begins anew as an independent producer under contract to Paramount, responsible for up to 24 new films over the next six years. Among his projects: a sequel to Chinatown and a remake of the 1946 classic, Notorious. Evans' decision to quit...
...monarchs. But they were the "I wouldn't-let-my-daughter-see-a-movie-like-that" types, despite the fact that they did worse things than any movies they imagined could show. Their successors, though some still have tinges of the old craziness (Frank Yablans, just-fired head of Paramount, wants to be President of the United States--It Can Happen Here) are essentially businessmen. Every studio but Twentieth Century Fox has been acquired by a conglomerate, and the products show it. You could see it Tuesday night on the show. Francis Ford Coppola, accepting the Best Picture Award...
...objective surveyor of the international scene, and Cole's portrayal of him as a Lone Eagle victimized by a powerful administration intolerant of dissent, is patently invalid. Lindbergh was a Germanophile, extremely sympathetic to Nazi policies in Germany, and obviously a racist. He saw the Soviet Union as the paramount world danger and said frequently that he would rather ally himself with the Nazis than with the U.S.S.R., a nation of "godlessness, cruelty, and barbarism." It would be totally unreasonable to suggest that Lindbergh's views on these questions failed to color his perspective on foreign policy. To present...
...conclusions we draw, then, are these: even when some members of the university fail to meet their social and ethical responsibilities, the paramount obligation of the university is to protect their right to free expression. This obligation can and should be enforced by appropriate formal sanctions. If the university's overriding commitment to free expression is to be sustained, secondary social and ethical responsibilities must be left to the informal processes of session, example, and argument...