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...does fame, fortune, and a Hollywood career grab you ? Cold you dig a leading role in 3 Lives For Mississippi -a film about the 1964 slayings of three civil rights workers-which is soon to be cast in the Quincy House guest suite by Downhill Racer maker Michael Ritchie? Or perhaps you just enjoy guerrilla theatre, mind-expansion through participation art, poetry reading, films, tales of liberation, dram symposiums, cowardly lions, music, or sports...
Film director Michael Ritchie will combine his guest appearance-during which he will screen and discuss his recent movie, Downhill Racer -with a talem search for unknown actors in his upcoming documentary, ? Lives for Mississippi Ritchie's films have been hailed by critics for his inventive style in fusing the emotional impact of fictional drama with the harsh realism that makes them feature documentaries. The script for his current cinematographic endeavor is now being written by Jean Claude van Itallic '58, based upon William Bradford Huie's book about the murders of three civil rights workers in Philadelphia, Mississippi...
Ritchie has selected Harvard for his casting ground on the basis of his past success in filling three major roles for Downhill Racer in a similar talent search conducted at the University of Colorado. He is seeking unknown actors instead of Hollywood stars because of the documentary nature of the film, and emphasizes the lack of necessary dramatic background for would be candidates. Close physical resemblance to the slain figures is non-essential, since the three civil rights workers looked different in several photographs anyway, but Ritchie is searching for approximate look-alikes in general appearance to the principal characters...
...spend more than six weeks a year pursuing his sport. For skiers like Kidd-and indeed athletes in any sport -the rule is patently ridiculous. "In order to compete at the top nowadays," explains Kidd, "you have to spend at least ten months skiing." The amateur ski racer is forced to accept "certain under-the-table payments" if he wants to eat regularly...
...TAKE-OFF point for the student of Creative Psychology is liberation from the "illusion of the personal ego." The reason, in other words, that the Supermarket Racers all failed before they started is because they completely misunderstood the meaning of life. They saw themselves as individuated organisms-physically independent from their environment and physically independent of the spiritual miracle of Life-who were simply cancelled out by death. That perspective dooms our Racer to frustration and self-recrimination...