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Carefully Screened. Mental hospitals and clinics from all over Europe refer patients to Geel. Two general practitioners and four psychiatrists observe new arrivals for two to three weeks in a small hospital; about half the applicants are rejected. Those who remain -some 50 a year-are the ones found suitable to Geel's way of life, mostly nonviolent psychotics and people with subnormal intelligence. The carefully screened families who take them in receive a practical compensation: extra hands for simple work, plus stipends of 80? to $2 per day. "The first time they take a patient they are doing...
...Smothers Brothers are also delving into black humor on their own CBS program. The other week, Tommy Smothers, having invited his first Negro house guest, stumbled over whether to refer to him as a Negro, colored person or black. Finally, upon the guest's arrival, he stammered: "Hi, boy-er, I mean, Bill." When the visit ended, Tommy said, "I would really like to have you over more often." Bill exited with: "Well, that's mighty white...
...teeth into the problem with guests like Flip Wilson on her CBS variety show. Flip, during one segment, complained of his wife's cuisine. "She cooks like an extremist-burn, baby, burn." Another week, Carol spoofed TV's own new cliche characterization of what some blacks refer to as "Supernegro." Opening the door of her home to find a young, leather-jacketed black (Charles Moore), she chirped: "Why, it's a good-looking young Negro. Now don't tell me. I'll bet you're a doctor, a lawyer, a scientist, or maybe even...
Salesman is a good deal more ambitious and successful. Producers Al and David Maysles spent almost two months following a group of Bible salesmen on their rounds (which they refer to as "your Father's business"), from Boston to Opalocka, Fla. The result is a nightmare version of, in Al Maysles' phrase, "a part of the American dream." Salesman's central figure is a middle-aged Massachusetts Irishman named Paul Brennan, whom his cronies nickname "The Badger." He holds one of the MidAmerican Bible Co.'s better than average sales records, but as the film progresses...