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Anthropologists say that primitive people often eat the gods they worship. The cannibals in question are the new generation of studio heads, many of whom are ex-agents. They are light-years away from the megalomaniac visionaries of yesteryear like Samuel Goldwyn and Irving Thalberg. The current studio bosses' philosophy seems to be: if it sold 30 years ago, it must sell now. Even the greatest of Hollywood's camp creations is not to be spared. For the past two months, ads have been splashed throughout the press proclaiming that King Kong will love and die again...
Unaffected by the anguish of the recent past, they are waving off hard drugs and hard political lines in favor of good-time music and that oldest of adolescent verities: fun. Gone are the trademarks of yesteryear: denim fatigues, dove-crowned peace flags, bottles of Ripple wine. In their place can be found pastel tennis shoes, American flags and Tab. Many fans come in halter tops for a suntan and to be part of the carnival scene. They just want to dance boogie and sing along. Says Chicago Lyricist Robert Lamm, 30: "These days nobody wants to hear songs that...
...components of tragedy. But even milestones can erode with the years and weather. Depression America is not Recession America; economic determinism is no longer in literary style. The ranch hands who surround George and Lennie are types rather than characters, and the stagecraft contains all the ungainly devices of yesteryear: the breathless entrances, the lamplit confessionals, the contrived pathos that redeems criminal actions...
...Waltons has created a new television genre that might be termed extended family entertainment. These are shows that encourage the members of the modern nuclear family (all 3.4 of them) to gather round the electronic hearth and envy the lot of the poorer but more populous rural families of yesteryear. The prairie families are envisioned by television as infinitely more caring, more loving and free of neurosis than we dare hope to be. Pop, who is nearly always out of work and thus has a lot of time on his hands, is always willing to explain anything from...
...paper, at least, the airline sounded like the arrogant, politically potent Pan Am of yesteryear. Pan Am haughtily refers to its desired subsidy as a "national interest payment." But does it have a case for subsidy by any name? Should taxpayers in, say, Tulsa, Des Moines and Wichita (who do not see Pan Am aircraft at local airports) be called upon to keep Pan Am flying? Or should Pan Am simply be allowed to die, its profitable routes parceled out among other carriers and its unprofitable ones dropped...