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...obscenely brutal" hunting film presented as "family" entertainment. But Ebert can also defend the balletic, bloody violence in The Wild Bunch on the grounds that, like a child's mock shootout, it is "no more real than dozens of gunfights I have already survived in the company of Rex Allen, Hopalong Cassidy and John Wayne." Nor is he prudish when it comes to a well-turned dash of décolletage. "If there's anything drearier than a dirty movie with a false moral tacked onto it," he wrote of 491, "it's the false moral without...
...Rex Reed, writer and sometime actor (Myra Breckinridge), ordered a bed from a Manhattan department store. Three months passed. Then came the long anticipated announcement: the bed will be delivered on Friday. Reed waited all day. No bed. Having disposed of his other bed, he slept on the floor. Next day deliverers brought the bed but could not put it up. No screws. "We have to put in a special order." On Monday, men appeared with the screws. But they could not put in the mattresses. No slats. "That's not our department." Reed hired a carpenter to build them...
...Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra and the Harvard Glee Club will be coming together March 20 to perform a typically difficult and varied program: Josquin, Poulance, Handl, Stravinsky's "Oedipus Rex," and the Brahms "Alto Rhapsody." The soloist for the "Rhapsody" is Mildred Miller from the Metropotitan Opera...
...home-town high school, a teacher was castigated for recommending Salinger's celebrated Catcher in the Rye as the basis of a book report. And a department head in southern Maine refused to allow Sophocles' Oedipus Rex to be taught...
...Burton-Lyon-Gardner gallimaufry of Night of the Iguana. There is crustaceous Veteran Director John Huston portraying Uncle Buck Loner, the sagebrush sybarite. Huston, an inveterate cigar smoker, has been unhappy with a no-smoking clause that Mae West had written into her contract. There is the epicene Rex Reed, who eats peaches, scribbles notes for his book (about the making of Myra, naturally) and regularly breaks up the crew with his lavender drawl. Towering over all is the ribald old empress, Mae West, who threatens to steal the show as Leticia Van Allen, the drunken, horny agent...