Word: yugoslavia
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Kremlin in 1972, Nixon ate Wheaties and smoked a pipe (Americans had not known he indulged). On another journey, Nixon sat with Yugoslavia's Marshal Tito on an old bunk bed in the marshal's restored birthplace in Kumrovec, swapping hard-time stories. When Jerry Ford had a fur hat clamped on his head by Brezhnev on the frozen plain near Vladivostok, he grinned, then immediately walked over to reporters and asked if they had heard the score of the big game back home: Michigan was playing Ohio State...
...Dracula of Shubert Alley was born in Yugoslavia 52 years ago, came to the U.S. at 15 and took a Ph.D. in comparative literature at Harvard. After contributing to a number of publications, Simon became New York's drama critic in 1969 and switched to film reviews in 1975. Simon's movie reviewing for other publications had been first-rate, but the scholar seemed miscast in that role for New York, wasting himself on recondite rhapsodies for slick-but-shallow entertainments like The Spy Who Loved Me, until New York mercifully put him back on the theater beat...
Carrillo then flew to Yugoslavia, hoping to discuss his U.S. trip with Marshal Tito. The aging marshal was too fatigued to see him and begged off, but Carrillo dined with Yugoslavia's No. 2 man, Edvard Kardelj, who was just back from a successful visit to Washington. Next it was off to Rome for talks with Italy's Enrico Berlinguer, leader of Western Europe's largest Communist Party. In deference to Berlinguer, who has been careful not to antagonize the Kremlin despite his own protestations of independence, Carrillo shrugged off the snub he had received in Moscow...
...expelled from the party in 1972, whereupon he moved to France and made "Sweet Movie." He says he could have remained in Yugoslavia, but could not have worked effectively there. Now, five years later, he feels he could probably return and work in his home country...
Although the U.S. and the Yugoslavian producer-director relationships are similar, Makavejev hypothesizes that being a Marxist in this country means something different than being a Marxist in Yugoslavia...