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Underground (good credentials: Emile de Antonio, Haskell Wexler, Mary Lampson...
...Mercedes on hand near the Salem, Ore., mental hospital where the movie was shot (the car was eventually driven out from New York), and kept communication with cast and crew to a minimum. Nicholson went for several weeks hardly speaking to Forman, largely by his own choice. Cinematographer Haskell Wexler, himself an Oscar winner (Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?), groused about the way things were going and was replaced halfway through the filming. Fletcher fought with Forman through 17 takes of her first day's shooting. "Milos is very authoritarian," she says. "He doesn't want...
...Life, a comedy about upper-class life in Buffalo, has been getting rave reviews. It's continuing in repertory with Ah, Wilderness at the BU Summer Repertory Theatre. Ticket prices are steep--$4 to $7.50--but there is such a thing as a "student pass." Call 353-3392. --Natalle Wexler...
Jacqueline Grennan Wexler, LL.D., president, Hunter College...
...that anyone is likely to be bored while the film is building up to this climactic vulgarity. Writer Wexler and Director Fleischer treat us to gaudy depictions of all the evils in the Old South that we have learned to know and loathe. We have scarcely settled into our seats before Falconhurst's Young Massah is venturing across the color line to find true sexual happiness. Floggings, hangings, slave auctions and gory combats follow in quick succession. There are sadistic assaults on prepubescent black girls and a good deal of bother about incest. James Mason, as the plantation...