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...exactly hardened criminals here," says the TV producer testifying before Congress at the end of Quiz Show. "We're in show business." By this point in Robert Redford's critically acclaimed new movie, no one can miss the irony of that line. The people who conspired to rig the big-money quiz shows in the 1950s, according to the film, were criminals all right -- and not despite but because of the fact that they were in show business. These connivers didn't just feed a few answers to favored contestants to boost ratings. They destroyed a nation's innocence...
Early this summer, members of Redford's staff approached Harvard administrators unsolicited, to offer a free screening of the movie for Harvard's entering first-year class. The administrators were wild about the showing, which would have been tonight. They even printed up a series of press brochures advertising the event...
Then, in the eleventh hour, Redford backed out. Last week, his associates telephoned Harvard to say they could no longer show the movie here. They provided no explanation, and, since then, have been unreachable for comment...
Granted, in the great scheme of things, the Second Quiz Show Scandal is a trivial affair. But we would hope that Redford could at least, in some small way, practice what he preaches. As it stand, the film deserves two thumbs up. As it stands, the film deserves two thumps up. Redford, on the other hand, gets the finger...
...liars, negotiated a million- dollar deal for a confessional book and eventually gone into politics. It is one of the several virtues of this thoughtful and hugely entertaining movie that it encourages such reflections. Written with clean-cut force by Paul Attanasio and directed with panache by Robert Redford -- they know how to efficiently shape a character and point a scene -- Quiz Show neither nostalgizes about nor inflates its drama. Rather it contextualizes it, makes us see it not merely as an antique controversy but as a symbolic turning point in recent cultural and social history...