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...relief, was dropped. And a riveting new character, the brooding Lieut. Castillo (played with remarkable power by Emmy Nominee Edward James Olmos), joined the show. Castillo, Tubbs and Crockett bear less resemblance to other cop-show protagonists than to classic western heroes--men, in the words of Critic Robert Warshow, whose "melancholy comes from the 'simple' recognition that life is unavoidably serious...
...Fielder also went on to criticize the Rosenbergs' attitudes towards art, sports. Literature, and Judaism, and the couple's statements on these topics in their posthumously collected letters were, in fact, typical of a warped agit-prop sensibility. Both Fiedler and Robert Warshow [Commentary. Nov. '53] contended that the Rosenbergs lived an existence governed solely by their Communism, and that this was somehow disgusting. But even though the critics' background held traces of the Rosenbergs' Bronx roots, they weren't concerned at all with the process by which the couple's beliefs invaded the very marrow of their lives...
...being made are simply interesting enough to an audience involved in cultural and social action, whether the men who make the films are interested in changing or analyzing the world--even as small a part of it as Hollywood. The agonizing tension communicated by the old crusaders--Agee, MacDonald, Warshow--is now lacking. Since the educated came to recognize that talented men have already created lasting works of cinema art, it's become more acceptable to say, sniff, that Dreyer is a poet in light; or, sigh, that John Ford is the lyricist of the American past. Just sit back...
...Significance. Though differing in detail from The Book of Daniel Drew and Warshow's Jay Gould, Jubilee Jim completes the fascinating picture of those two crooked wizards in relation to their lesser but indispensable associate. Told in the fictitious third person of Jim's confidant and publicity man, it records the entire gamut of his knaveries, but gives him where possible the benefit of the doubt. After all, Fisk died with a paltry million, while Gould left seventy millions, and Vanderbilt a hundred. If such figures are as nothing today, the balance is struck by bygone melodramatics...
...author: Robert Irving Warshow, Cornell graduate, long has been a contributor to economic and financial journals. Jay Gould is his first published book...