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John Stewart's album of last year, Willard, was one such little-known success. Ironically Stewart, a former member of the Kingston Trio, has always been extremely sensitive to the fine details of his AM-oriented boyhood in Los Angeles. Because he chooses to describe those details, instead of reproducing them. Willard is probably inherently unsuited for AM play...
...best songs on Willard are largely nostalgic views of a past to which he doesn't really want to return. He is almost academically concerned with the mundane activities which absorbed the peaks and depressions of most people's lives at the time of the Kingston Trio...back-seat loving, pumping gas, truck driving, horse driving, driving...
Fang and Claw. The Thomas affair is certainly the most shocking to occur within the labyrinth of Foggy Bottom personnel practices, but it is by no means the only one of its kind. Willard Brown, a Class 2 officer, discovered after his selection-out that the State Department had lost all of his personnel records and that consequently his name had not been considered for promotion for several years. Nor are good men being passed over just for clerical errors. The selection process in the department has traditionally been the last word in Darwinistic elitism. McClintock, although a highly regarded...
Nibble on People. Most audiences root for the rats, sometimes yelling a resounding "Right on, Ben!" when he leads the cast of hundreds in the charge on Willard. Moe Di Sesso, a wildlife trainer who works out of the San Fernando Valley, spent a full year assembling, casting and coaching Ben, Socrates and the others. "As soon as a rat was born we'd start handling it," Di Sesso explained. "Then we taught it to do specific things...
Staying the Course. It was then up to Director Daniel Mann (Butterfield 8, The Rose Tattoo) to put the rats through their dramatic paces. He may well go down in cinematic history as the Cecil B. DeMille of rodent movies: the rats swarm through Willard as if they were born to stardom. There was one problem, though: getting enough rat shrieks for the sound track. With a watchful fellow from the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals in daily attendance, the sound men had to be crafty. One day, when the A.S.P.C.A. man was not looking, they...