Word: selma
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Nuremberg, Ship of Fools), it makes a decent attempt to explain the meaning of a remarkable man's life. Audiences too young to remember the civil rights movement of the '50s and '60s may find King a revelation. The struggles of Montgomery and Birmingham, of Selma and Chicago are all re-enacted with corrosive force. So, too, are the many efforts to block King's progress, whether by thugs or Southern sheriffs or J. Edgar Hoover. Against this tumultuous background, King's courageous devotion to nonviolent activism assumes appropriately heroic proportions...
Usually Hickman finds little cause for humor. Along Selma Avenue and Sunset Boulevard, male and female teenagers, many of them runaways, line up under the guise of hitchhiking. Grandfatherly "chicken hawks," men in their 50s and 60s, haggle with "chickens," teen-age boy hustlers, through the windows of Cadillacs. Blonde prostitutes boast of earning $600 a night from Mexicans who have illegally sneaked across the border and pay premium prices for a fair gringa. Brunettes and blacks can at best count on around $300 a night...
...invoked the First Amendment principles of free speech and free assembly to protect civil rights marches in some of the inflamed Southern cities. Despite wholesale threats of violence, the resulting demonstrations were peaceful, thanks to state and local police ordered in by the courts. But constitutional rights protected in Selma, Ala., in 1965 apparently cannot be secured in Chicago...
...shifting pictorial backgrounds-sometimes raw and powerful, sometimes peaceful-are remarkably varied: newsreels of the Chicago riots, the Selma civil rights march, Charles Manson, the flower children putting daisies into rifle barrels, the death of Bobby Kennedy...
Police say that the two men preyed on boys and young men, some of them apparently male prostitutes, who frequented homosexual cruising areas like Selma Avenue in Hollywood and MacArthur Park in Los Angeles. Says Lieut. Douglas, "We have no indication of what the motive was." Other than the fact that some of the victims, at least, were homosexuals, they appeared to have little in common...