Word: sams
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Vietnam Moratorium was conceived as an anti-war student moratorium last July-by three former McCarthy staffers: Sam Brown, national student coordinator for the McCarthy campaign; David Mixner, a former organizer of farm workers; and draft resister David Hawk. The idea of an escalating moratorium-one day in October, two in November, and so on "until there is a clear commitment to end U. S. involvement in Vietnam"-seems to have been accepted by most of the liberal establishment...
PLAY IT AGAIN, SAM is Woody Allen's new comedy, in which he plays a woefully unconfident young man trying desperately to be as successful with girls as his idol, Bogey...
...WILD BUNCH. There are equally generous doses of blood and poetry in this raucous western directed by Sam Peckinpah. Telling a violent yarn about a group of freebooting bandits operating around the Tex-Mex border at the turn of the century, Peckinpah uses both an uncommonly fine sense of irony and an eye for visual splendor to establish himself as one of the very best Hollywood directors...
...trend toward revivals, The Front Page is reopening this fall and will be joined by Harvey (James Stewart) and Our Town (Henry Fonda). An all-American series at Lincoln Center's repertory theater includes The Time of Your Life, Camino Real, Beggar on Horseback, plus Sam Shepard's new play, Operation Sidewinder, a wild satire of the contemporary U.S. scene, featuring an Air Force computer in the form of a sidewinder rattlesnake. Comedy is in short supply, but Mike Nichols is directing The Memorandum, a French farce about a determined bachelor and the girl who upsets his ordered...
...must be present. One woman in New York epitomizes those qualities: Ellen Stewart, the indefatigable doyenne of off-off-Broad way's experimental Café La Mama. Out of La Mama have come Jean-Claude van Itallie (America Hurrah!), Tom O'Horgan, (director of Futz and Hair), Sam Shepard (the 27-year-old author of Red Cross and Chicago), Leonard Melfi (Jack and Jill) and a host of others. Ellen Stewart announces the evening's program by ringing a homely cowbell. As long as Ellen rings her cowbell, whatever the season brings, the theater is alive...