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...SALESMAN. The Maysles Brothers, with camera and sound equipment in hand, spent six weeks tracking a group of New England Bible salesmen on their weary rounds. The result is a searing, melancholy and not wholly unsympathetic portrait of what the Maysles call "one part of the American dream...
Died. W. Lee ("Pappy") O'Daniel, 79, Texas Governor (1939-41) and U.S. Senator (1941-49) whose raucous hill billy campaigns amused a generation of Texans; in Dallas. A flour salesman and radio singer, O'Daniel entered politics in 1938 by running for Governor on a platform that included the Ten Commandments and mother love; he stumped the state singing his theme song, Pass the Biscuits, Pappy - and won by a landslide. Though he was inept as Governor, Texans gave him a second term, then sent him to the Senate after a primary battle in which he defeated...
...proud lineage of chieftains that once dominated the fabled American West, and friend of Sitting Bull, leader of the Creek Nation, whose oil-rich Oklahoma lands were taken over by the U.S. Government in 1907, after which the tribe scattered and he became a spiritualist minister and patent medicine salesman; of a stroke; in Canton, Ohio...
Please Come. Or are they? Stanley Kramer, whose films have won nearly 100 nominations, admits: "Frankly, the people in the Academy don't know what the hell they're voting for. Not any more than a clothing salesman from Dayton, Ohio." Paramount's production chief Robert Evans concurs: "There are people in the Academy who haven't worked in years. How can they know what the industry is about anymore?" Perhaps Joseph Mankiewicz is correct when he says: "A film academy that includes financiers and publicity men and does not include Fellini, Bergman and Truffaut...
Ploy No. 1: "I can't respect you any more." The opening gambit for all student movements, says Feuer, is "the moral de-authorization of the older generation." Like a replay of Death of a Salesman, a million sons must unmask the hypocrisy of a million fathers. Feuer writes of three generations of 19th century Russian students: "Each generation refused to be morally castrated as its fathers had been...