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...distributors have economic interests in other parts of the communications industry and are not about to forget it. The question then becomes: Will the Britannica Corporation market a $10 videotape of their product when they can charge hundreds of dollars for the same thing in a different form? Will Twentieth Century Fox release their films without considering how it will affect theatre box offices? Probably...
...Called Horse has made the most honest of recent attempts to break through the problem. It threw Richard Harris into the midst of an Indian village where the Indians spoke their own language-without translation or subtitles-and performed their own customs and rituals. Yet, for a twentieth-century white audience, what resulted was at best incomprehensible, at worst comic and condescending. (Like the absurdity of Dame Judith Anderson playing a wizened old Indian shrew.) Perhaps the Indians were better off in those days when they simply bit the dust. It certainly was less painful for them...
Furthermore, DuBois was an eminent twentieth-century scholar and political revolutionary. He was not a "black scholar" and to think otherwise is to emasculate the great man's achievements. There is no other African of comparable or equal stature in this century. The ideological and racial blunders of the United States have long prevented recognition of this fact, and "black militants" should not now encourage continued postponement of universal recognition and evaluation of DuBois's outstanding contributions to contemporary history...
...Twentieth century travelers have been struck by a number of things: oncoming cars, other airplanes, mountainsides -and sometimes the vaguely subversive thought that they are scarcely safer now than were 19th century men who took their chances in wagons across Indian country. There might be some intimation of progress in the fact that last week's Trans Caribbean Boeing 727 crash on St. Thomas in the Virgin Islands, in which two passengers died and 54 were injured, was the first and only fatal crash of American scheduled airlines in all of 1970. So superb a safety record suggests that...
...Twentieth Century Fox probably decided to finance the film to the tune of $8 million because of the burgeoning black film audience (and audience which rarely has the opportunity to see the creations of black directors). However, Richard Zanuck might also have realized that in its essential "past-ness," the play is a suitable vehicle for white exorcism. Fox may thus have a box-office winner every bit as salable as last spring's fence-straddler, Patton...