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...casting is both daring and first-rate. Altman has somehow made an ensemble out of a group that includes (in no particular order of significance) Lillian Gish, Pat McCormick, Howard Duff, Vittorio Gassman, Dina Merrill, Nina van Pallandt, Lauren Hutton, Mia Farrow, Geraldine Chaplin, Desi Arnaz Jr., Amy Stryker, Paul Dooley, various veterans of his stock company and a title card full of newcomers. They are all wonderful. If someone deserves to be singled out, it is Carol Burnett, who plays the bride's up tight but restless mother. For her to appear in this film took guts...
...anxiously await hearing from you. Sincerely, Drew Fixell '78 James D. Smith '79 Jeffrey Stryker '78 James Kriegar '78 David B. Tachau '78 Cynthia S. McCallister '79 Sarah E. Wright '80 Robert W. Kelly '78 Robert Grady '79 Leon W. Nawrocki...
...interest in stalking their forebears has in fact been increasing steadily over the past five years or so; it was greatly stimulated by the Bicentennial. According to expert estimates, amateur genealogy now ranks as the third favorite national hobby, after stamp and coin collecting. In fact, says Kenn Stryker-Rodda, associate editor of the venerable New York Genealogical and Biographical Society Record, family history "may now be outstripping philately and numismatics in popular interest." No small part of its allure is that ancestor hunting need not be expensive: the raw material and the rewards are in every family. Moreover...
...just this attitude that caused friction between Evans and Roy Stryker, who directed the photographers of the Farm Security Administration, causing Evans to be the first to go when there was a budget reduction in 1937. Evans was independent, not to be "directed" from above. Later in his 20 years at Fortune, he not only decided what subjects he would photograph but wrote the accompanying captions and stories. Says Szarkowski. "Stryker thought that the unit's function was to help reform the ills of the country, and Evans thought it was an artist's function to describe life. Stryker thought...
...Stryker admits that Walker Evans' work stood out from the rest with a kind of cold beauty. But the sharecropper viewed close up from Let Us Now Praise Famous Men is one of only a few included in the book. A pity. Critic Lincoln Kirstein was nearly right when he said that in Evans' photographs, "even the inanimate things, bureau drawers, pots, tires, bricks, signs, seem to be wait ing in their own patient dignity, posing for their picture." The last word on all these photographs, however, perhaps should go to James Agee, Evans' admir ing partner...