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Lasting just 62 minutes, unobtrusively narrated by New York Times Columnist Tom Wicker, the film takes its title from Stone's newsletter, which was written, edited, proofed and published by Stone for 19 years. In December 1971, having reached the age of 64, Stone closed the last issue. Bruck ends his film with Stone saying goodbye to his printers -a sequence of rushed, embarrassed feeling-and a sort of postlude in which Stone gleefully admits something that has been obvious all along: "I really have so much fun I ought to be arrested...
...YORK TIMES COLUMNIST TOM WICKER: The clamor for Richard Nixon's resignation is suddenly so deafening that it may drown out good sense and overwhelm due process. It risks a rush to decision rather than an exercise of judgment, and it proposes a constitutional short cut when the primary problem is that the Constitution already has been too often slighted or ignored...
...Hollow Hills, Stewart ( 3-The Honorary Consul,Greene (5) 4-World Without End, Amen, 8resLin (3) 5-Breakfast of Champions, Vonnegut (4) 6-The Salamander, West (7) 7-Once Is Not Enough, Susann (8) 8-Harvest Home, Tryon (6) 9-North Dallas Forty, Genf 10-Facing the Lions, Wicker...
Gore Vidal, Allen Drury and Tom Wicker (the novelist) share with Richard Nixon a common flaw: all have failed to make our capital city believable. One explanation of why Washington fiction is so lame may be that while the stages and settings are of heroic size and the plots involve the fate of nations, the figures shouting speeches and shaking swords seem absurdly tiny...
People don't read action-packed panoramic, superficial novels to learn how Tom Wicker feels about newspaper business, even when Tom Wicker wrote the book in question. Facing the Lions is kind of light weight entertainment, nothing more, though it is pretty successful in its own way--better than most of what Drury or Knebel produced. Precisely why Tom Wicker would spend his time writing this kind of book is unclear, but even if Facing the Lions is only entertainment no less mindless than television, it has more sex on its pages than is likely to come for some time...