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...account-executive and settling in Greenwich, Conn. But there are other kinds of people in the U.S., and they have made Don McNeill the most enduringly successful broadcasting talent in the country. "Our theme is to make a neighborhood of a nation," he says. He is the archenemy of smut. His show is clean, decent, plain, straightforward, decorous, honest, and full of gimmicks like the daily snake march around the breakfast table. And even if McNeill says good-morning and reports, "It's a foggy, soggy morning in Chicago," fans all over the U.S. nonetheless detect a shaft...
...direction, by Philip L. Stotter, is commendable. Stotter makes the most of the play's rich store of smut, without turning everyone's stomach. The great cuckold scene in Horner's house, which contains some memorable dirt, comes off admirably. Christie Dickason's make-up is excellent, and the costumes, designed by Miss Dickason, are seemingly authentic and in some cases revealing...
...Francisco (where else?), the San Franciso Chronicle ran an amusing story under the headline "Miller Book Isn't Smut, Cop Says." Some years ago, Captain William Hanrahan was severely criticized for his hasty action in impounding some copies of poet Alan Ginzberg's beat epic, "Howl." Now, according to the story, Hanrahan is a sadder and a wiser cop. After his unhappy experience with "Howl," he is cautious, and only judges a book like Henry Miller's Tropic of Cancer in "its total context...
Roses to the "self-appointed" censor, W. D. Maxwell of the Chicago Tribune [Aug. 25], who revised the list of bestsellers to exclude the products of smut-rakers...
...long as movies stuck to a long list of artificial don'ts (don't show a man and woman in bed, even if they are married, etc.). But Hollywood's new freedom, while making more room for honest art, has also made more room for calculated smut, drawing a barrage of protests from parents, pastors and assorted pressure groups. Defying accusations of censorship, many have suggested some sort of adults-only classification system on the theory that movies are a special, and specially public, medium. Books present problems, too, as for instance Henry Miller's notorious...