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Democratic Party Telethon. 18 1/2 hours with such as Joan Rivers, Mike Nichols, Gregory Peck. Johnny Carson, Watch and give: if they help elect McGovern, it'll be worth the time and money. SATURDAY: CHANNEL...
...days, favorite nonparents are to be honored with flowers and cigars. The organization has begun to publish a rather juvenile newsletter, Non-Sense, which, for example, recently charged that the March issue of Pageant "exceeded the bounds of all decency in extolling the virtues of motherhood." One member, Ellen Peck, has written a book that disparages motherhood mostly because it gets in the way of the glamour of a free life...
...nine years he has been one of the game's outstanding pitchers. But like Lou Gehrig, who labored first in the shadow of Babe Ruth and then Joe DiMaggio, Lolich has usually seemed to be second best. He had the initial misfortune of being teamed with the Peck's Bad Boy of baseball, Denny McLain. The outstanding performance of Lolich's career-three World Series victories over the St. Louis Cardinals in 1968 -was virtually lost in the glare of McLain's 31 victories that season. In 1971, Lolich won 25 games and struck...
...Peck compared the play and its impact to the Depression's Waiting for Lefty. He hoped it would have the same kind of "inspirational effect". But that comparison merely reveals the fuzzyheadedness of the entire production. An audience watching Odets in the '30's knew what body of thought lay behind his words and at play's end were urged to take direct action and go out on strike. A Catonsville audience is left with the taste of the Lord's Prayer in their mouths--with only isolated protests to aim for and little analysis to guide them...
...believe Peck to be a sincere man. When he says, "Since 1968, something in the world has been happening which is inhuman, that makes you unable to breathe the same air," he really means it. But he is the sort of man who leads his name to intentions alone, whether those of half-baked films or a half-baked American Film Institute (of which he is a Trustee). And too many roads to futility are paved by such good...