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...sound like your standard "white-eyes-hunt-the-yellow-iron" Central Casting Indian, but Dan George is the real thing, a former chief of British Columbia's Tse-lal-watt tribe. He is also, thanks to his magnificent performance as the noble non-savage in Arthur Penn's Little Big Man, the most astonishingly successful new actor in Hollywood. Much of the film's validity rests on his authentic and serene presence as Old Lodge Skins. When he tells his adopted grandson (Dustin Hoffman), "My heart soars like a hawk to see you," one can truly visualize...
That was one of the rare occasions in his life when Dan George needed anyone's help. A descendant of six generations of Tse-lal-watt chiefs, Dan George as a boy hunted on Seymour Mountain with bow and arrow (he scoffs at "white Indian" westerns: "No Indian holds a bow perpendicular. You must shoot with the bow horizontal so the arrow doesn't curve to the ground"). He helped his father log the tribe's timber and often paddled a canoe into Vancouver for supplies. Baptized a Roman Catholic like his father and grandfather, Dan George...
...Watt Grin. Given such raw dramaturgy, such dim insights, who could possibly have thought The Great White Hope worthwhile? James Earl Jones, for one. And in fact he proves that the role of Jefferson is an actor's dream. Though he played it 429 times onstage, Jones has, if anything, grown fresher. He does not act the part so much as consume it, then let it shine out of his eyes and resound in his mouth: "If I lets it go too long, then everybody say, now ain't dat one shiftless nigger . . . an' if I chop...
Black Sales. Cooperating with Con Ed were many stores, office buildings and apartment houses throughout the city. The 75,000-watt sign on the Allied Chemical tower in Times Square was darkened, though almost every other light in the Great White Way blazed as usual. On Madison Avenue, several boutiques decided that air conditioning was more important than lights and conducted black sales: customers tried on clothes in the dark...
...needs water," says Jerome Waidie, a U.S. Congressman from the Delta town of Antioch. "Why then," asks Waidie, "should we increase the pressures on that limited air supply by a governmental policy that will enable barren acres to develop more subdivisions, more automobiles, and more people?" According to Ecologist Watt, the influx of water will worsen Los Angeles smog, which in turn will transform the area into a "death trap...