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...scripter Buck Henry (dare this hardcore Southern fan say it) actually improves upon the novel in two bizarrely funny sequences: Candy's worshipful encounter with drunk Welsh poet McPhisto (Richard Burton), leading to a more-than-peculiar basement menage a quatre involving her Mexican gardener (a "Pepper"-era Ringo Starr doing an incredibly awful accent); and her "lesson" with a guru (Marlon Brando) whose accent keeps changing from East Indian to New Yawk in mid-sentence. Henry and director Christian Marquand's work on the rest of the movie isn't nearly as successful, or true to Southern's style...
...committing atrocities against civilians in the predominantly Christian and animist south, including kidnapping people and selling them as slaves.) You have regular protests outside Sudan's embassy in Washington, and some of those arrested there are being defended by a legal double team of Johnnie Cochran and Ken Starr. And one of the Christian groups working down there is Samaritan's First, which is headed by Franklin Graham, son of Billy. Sudanese government forces have even bombed Graham's hospital. And of course, Al Sharpton went down there to witness slavery, and many more black leaders in the U.S. have...
...Generation after generation has repossessed San Francisco physically and imaginatively as the expression of their ideal life," says Kevin Starr, California state librarian and a fourth-generation San Franciscan. "In the '60s and '70s people saw San Francisco as an alternative to escape the competitiveness of American life. There was an enormous availability of housing stock. You could go out to the Castro or the Mission and find Victorians built for working-class people that are just stunning...
...Cities have stories to tell about themselves," explains Starr. For example, "New York's story is that 'if you can make it here, you can make it anywhere.' You go to San Francisco--mythwise--to enjoy the hippie Summer of Love, a progressive-politics daydream, a lifestyle as a wine-and-foodie, any number of competing but interlocking visions of the '60s and '70s." But, he adds, "that narrative is over, and San Francisco doesn't have a new story to tell about itself. It doesn't have a metaphor to embrace its new identity...
Kicking off the "AIDS in Africa" series co-sponsored by the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy and The Center for International Development (CID), Sachs spoke to a packed Starr Auditorium on AIDS and other diseases affecting third world countries...