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...then what can you expect of a movie about blacks in which the main love scene is preceded by a meal of fried chicken? Thank heavens they did not have watermelon for dessert, but that is about the only cliché of black life the film has avoided. Richard Schickel...
...problems without such corniness. Newsweek's Paul Zimmerman asked, "Who needs a film about a white man who teaches blacks how to think?" (But if black children are taught to think by blacks or liberated whites, aren't the rednecks the only ones who lose?) And in Time, Richard Schickel compared Conroy's relentless idealism to Chinese water torture...
...Richard Schickel and I agree that the made-for-TV movies are perhaps the change of pace that TV needs [April 1]. However, I must disagree with his assessment of The Execution of Private Siovik. I believe that what Schickel calls "the mightiest flop of the year" was one of the most moving TV stories of the year. That "pathetically masochistic G.I." didn't want to kill or be killed. That's crazy...
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