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...producer of children's films, Joseph Strick, 45, is less skilled than Radnitz. His prior movies have been fare that kids could scarcely see, much less comprehend: Ulysses, The Balcony, The Savage Eye. In Ring of Bright Water, he reverses himself and locks out the adults with a tale that makes The Three Bears seem Byzantine...
Troubled Waters. President Johnson can hardly overestimate the depth or complexity of the problem. Once he was able to mobilize a conscience-strick en nation behind civil rights measures designed to right long-standing wrongs. Now, after four summers of holocausts in the nation's largest cities, concern over the Negro's welfare has been largely replaced by consternation at the prospect of anarchy. Nothing more dramatically underscored this shift than the total silence that greeted Johnson's State of the Union plea for several "vital" civil rights laws covering fair jury trials, enforcement of equal-employment...
...filming of Finnegans Wake required a Joycean energy from Producer-Director-Scenarist Mary Ellen Bute, 60, an American whose previous movie experience has been confined to short ; subjects. Almost inevitably, her brave effort suffers by comparison with Joseph Strick's recent version of Ulysses (TIME, March 31). Part of the problem is in the size of the task undertaken. For all its mythic dimensions, the huge superstructure of Ulysses is based largely on a single classic theme. But Finnegan cosmically takes on all history-Critic Frank O'Connor shrewdly accused Joyce the agnostic of egoistically revising...
Morton claimed that in 1966 Strick man had taken his filter to Louisville's Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corp., which tested the device and rejected it because it was too tightly compacted, as any effective filter might be. Indeed, observed Dr. Ernest Wynder of Manhattan's Sloan-Kettering Institute for Cancer Research, filters that significantly cut tars and nicotine "are so tight that when you smoke these cigarettes you develop a hernia...
...Next day Strick denounced Festival Director Robert Favre Le Bret for his "barbaric, arrogant and intolerable action," and later announced that he was withdrawing the film from the competition. Le Bret replied that only the British film delegation could remove the picture, and that it was still in contention for the festival's top prize, which will be awarded this week...