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...printed directly from negatives, the exhibition does not pretend to present high points of the photographer's art, nor does it fall to the level of collector's kitsch: these signed likenesses are not commemorative whisky bottles or glass power-line insulators. Instead, the collection allows the viewer briefly to inhabit a delightful interim area of popular history, as if stuck between floors in an elevator with an assortment of charming and engaging passengers...
Media executives are getting nervous. ABC's New York studio fired five staff members, accusing them of using bogus questions on viewer-participation programs-earlier, an unlikely punishment for such an offense. It is hard enough as it is for a newspaper reader or television watcher to tell fact from fiction. On television, where the ability to create plausible fiction has run low, writers of "docudramas" put words never spoken by Churchill or Truman into their mouths. The confusion is compounded when the public is assured it is getting authentic words mouthed by actors...
...play is both allusive and elusive - rather like hearing a few bars of music that suddenly break off and then later recur with a disconcertingly poignant resonance. Or like observing an ancient marble statue where the missing arm, leg or head must be pieced together by the viewer's imagination...
...Weimar Berlin. Marlene Dietrich (her first film since 1964) intones the title song. David Bowie makes love to Kim Novak in a cemetery. David Hemmings (who also directed) plays a Nazi who turns Bowie's corpse into Horst Wessel. The stars keep straight faces and hold the viewer's eye through every narrative absurdity, and the film is handsomer, weirder, certainly funnier than Hardly Working. It would be stylish high-camp fun-if only the Nazis hadn't existed...
...station in Chicago got into an unseemly row by criticizing the ABC network's 20/20 program and Reporter Geraldo Rivera's use of the "ambush interview"-surprising a journalistic target on the street, with cameras turning. Even when a malefactor has it coming to him, a viewer is left with the impression of a defenseless person's being taken advantage of by privileged characters with mikes and press badges...