Word: truths
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...DUDLEY-HILLEL PRODUCTION of Neil Simon's The Good Doctor provides a warmly nostalgic evening--it brings back memories of junior high-school drama. How bad is it? So bad that it probably shouldn't be reviewed, at least not by anyone who is willing to tell the truth. But even at its worst, this production is not too innocent to offend anyone. Most of the actors look too frightened or unsure, and although there is a director, you'd never know it from the blocking or pace of the show. As in most junior high productions, whenever someone chances...
...being waged throughout the world. It seems reasonable to raise the question: Are Harvard professors--safe and secure with plenty of status and money--so removed from social reality? What makes them so objective? Unless we are willing to concede that the Harvard Faculty has stumbled upon the absolute truth, the only alternative is to leave the decision up to the individual--at least to a greater extent than would the Core Curriculum...
...life of a pop singer on the road. Even Bob Dylan... but like a smirking James Dean (the star of perhaps the first rock and roll movie, Rebel Without a Cause) on a cheaply-paneled witness stand, we knew Dylan was never going to tell us the whole truth and nothing but the truth, no matter how solemnly he promised. There was always the wink, the knowing aside. About Dylan there were only rumors--his face is horribly disfigured from the motorcycle crash, he's in Nashville, no I mean Jerusalem, did you know he sends his kids...
...politely what had happened to Princeton, the alleged destination. "Shoulda got off last stop, buddy." "Well, why didn't you tell me?" "I announced it over the friggin P.A. system." Either I fell asleep for those five seconds or this guy is bucking for contestant on To Tell the Truth...
...damaged wing that American Hot Wax shows us. The payola affair is mentioned briefly in one scene, but Freed's relationship to it is fudged. The movie ends with an ominous subtitle epilogue which informs us that Freed was indicted and died "penniless" shortly thereafter. This is a truth which is distorted by its context. The real Freed was indeed a Messiah of rock and roll, but not for its own sake alone. He had lots to gain. The treatment of Freed points up the main feature of this movie, its defusing of almost all controversial issues at the time...