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Abbie Hoffman, the Yippie leader and one of the wilder defendants, could probably wish for much zanier touches. In any case, even in its second week, the Chicago "conspiracy" trial was becoming a classic American drama of the sixties...
...orgy from a "sensitivity" session-and neither, unfortunately, can the film's authors, who ought to go see the skit about wholesome swingers in that succes de scandale Off-Broadway, Oh! Calcutta! The dialogue remains flaccid throughout, badly in need of the kind of cutting edge that Billy Wilder could have given it. What Mazursky and Tucker obviously had in mind was a sophisticated, controversial comedy, but their work suggests that sex is too important to be left to Hollywood. Why B&C&T&A was chosen to open a presumably serious film festival on the gala first night...
MONDAY NIGHT AT THE MOVIES (NBC, 9-11:30 p.m.). Billy Wilder's masterpiece Some Like It Hot (1959), with Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis, Jack Lemmon, George Raft, Pat O'Brien and Joe E. Brown...
...pacing, odd for a thriller, allows a great complexity of events within each shot. Instead of making points, imposing judgments by cutting between one action and another, Franju juxtaposes them within the same space, allows them to coexist without making a moral judgement. Refusing to simplify, he implies wilder and wilder combinations of good and evil in single figures and single scenes. The world of 1914 is complex, but also very ordered, within his frames. One feels that one is seeing everything, that this world is morally complete...
...feel the effects of alcohol more acutely; 4) the inexperienced driver, whose lack of skill may be magnified by even minute amounts of alcohol; 5) the normal driver who is unusually sensitive to alcohol; 6) the motorist who is prone to "aggressive, sociopathic driving," and who may become even wilder with a few drinks in him; 7) the driver whose basic problem is "chronic, compulsive, sociopathic drinking...