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...Mougins, a hilltop town five miles and 50 years away from Cannes, Mayor Rene Pellegrin became the first official anywhere to win re-election on an anti-Rolling Stones ticket. The Stones, pained by the gigantic British tax bite, decided to settle down in France, and sent emissaries to shop around for suitable villas. What shocked staid Mougins (pop. 7,000) was the five-member rock group's request for Roman orgy-size baths that would accommodate six or eight at a time. The progressive, Rene Avelli met his Waterloo when he declared that Mick Jagger & Co. were welcome...
...Laszlo Kovacs Easy Rider scenic vista whenever something seemed about to happen; Alan Arkin's Yossarian in Mike Nichols' Catch-22; Carrie Snodgress's heroine and Frank Perry's paranoiac camera work in the somewhat overdrawn Diary of a Mad Housewife; Charles Bronson's headstrong investigator in Rene Clement's Rider on the Rain; the dripping decadence and provocative idea behind Performance; and the grand style of Jean-Paul Belmondo, Alain Delon and Michel Bouquet in the overly maligned Jacques Deray cartoon known as Borsalino...
Maximum Alert. Violence was not altogether unexpected. Two days before the congressional vote. General Rene Schneider was shot and gravely wounded by a small band of still unidentified terrorists. As he drove to his office along a narrow one-way street, his black Mercedes was suddenly blocked by four vehicles. While one young man smashed the rear window of the Mercedes with a small sledgehammer, another fired eight times at the general with a .45-cal. automatic pistol, and then escaped...
Enlarge GM's Board of Directors from 24 to 27 seats, adding three representatives of the public. The group's candidates were Betty Furness, President Johnson's special assistant for consumer affairs; Rene Dubos, a University of Chicago biologist and environmentalist; and the Rev. Channing Phillips, a civil rights leader in Washington...
...film that does not pander to youthful passion, express the abysmal views of a gloomy philosopher-director or explore assorted perversions in nude, sweaty detail. Particularly risky is the idea of filming an old-fashioned Hitchcockian murder mystery in all its creaking intricacy. That is precisely what French Director Rene Clement (Forbidden Games, Gervaise) has done in Rider on the Rain...