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...family also hopes that the whole fuss over lead may blow over. Bruce Gottwald argues that regulations banning the future use of lead in gasoline were emotionally inspired by environmentalists. Brother Floyd adds: "In five years there will be a different President, different politicians -and a lot more realism about all this than we have today...
...American Woman" [March 20]: congratulations! You have stated our case with realism, legitimacy, statistics, and sanity...
...More Realism. Prompted by the success of the original, most of the studios are going blackface with adventure films. Parks and company are now shooting Shaft's Big Score for MGM, which just released Cool Breeze, a black version of The Asphalt Jungle. Warner's, with Charleston Blue in the works, is planning a series of black "active adventure comedies." Universal and Fox will contribute their own versions of the black private-eye story. A bit more imaginative, Columbia has a black western, Buck and the Preacher, ready for spring distribution; it is directed by Sidney Poitier...
Such escapism creates many problems of its own: a phony realism is not one of them. All television shows--comedy and tragedy alike--are ridiculous and are perceived as such by their audiences. A show like Bewitched would be the paramount example, but even Beaver Cleaver is as obviously stereotyped as Jackie Gleason-Ralph Kramden. TV forces its audience to pay obeisance to the unreal, but not to believe...
...ANCIENT man," the centaur has told the young Jason, "myths and rituals are a regular part of existence." Employing the approach of neo-realism, Pasolini renders convincing a completely fantastic story and setting. This might be--as we watch the peasants file past, each dipping a finger in the bowl of a sacrificed victim's blood--a documentary made by time-traveling anthropologists. Magic has its place in this society, but the common people are close to the land, to nature. The landscapes--mountains and deserts, blazing skies, sun-baked cliffs riddled with cave-dwellings--surround Medea until she returns...