Brudnoy's Film Index
To the Editor: Do try, please, to think kindly of Patrick Bosoid (Correspondence~May), in spite of his outburst. You are no doubt aware that California's children are under par in education...
...Liv Ullmann, how could you...
...James Mason, as always, showing up his inferiors...
...Not even that...
...Then Kissinger uses it in his next press release, then the President, then our representatives, then newscasters, and so on down to the common people...
...In Miss Jones: More clever than Deep Throat...
...El Sobrante, California To the Editor: You guys are a bunch of . . . . . . . I bet you make Richard Nixon happy...
...After all, one gets so busy '~elf fulfilling" that one forgets there is no .iem after Birch, only an occasional er...
...I have recently read Robert Maddox's New Left and the Ode~ ef the CeM War, which spears the revisionist historians in their most vulnerable spot--their veracity-and which has luckily aroused a gn~d deal of controversy and done much to destroy the credibility of the revisionists...
...Stick with the 18th century...
...Lenkowsky...
...Hannah Arendt's "banality of evil" theme comes alive, _9 Jesus Christ Superstar: A familiar story, some excellent God-pop rock, a majestic set: (Israel's deserts), a wee bit of camp ("Herod's Song": "So you're Jesus Christ: Prove to me that you're no fool...
...Keep up the goad work...
...the Nixon Court approves...
...9 Money, Money, Money: Funny, funny, etc...
...More likely people are persuaded to remain in it both by wrongheaded policies like FAP and by the present intellectual and spiritual environment that always aJibis for the under.achiever and socks it to the guy who works for his daily bread--not the rich guy, mind you, but the hard working overage man...
...Brudnoy's Film Index _9 Cleopatra Jones: No...
...You are to be complimented for having given space to such an excellent analysis...
...You are no doubt aware that California's children are under par in education (what they lack in brain, they make up for in brawn-~ xpelled six the other day for proving that with two teachers...
...Here he acts fine, only his character is utterly repulsive...
...Nixon had not encouraged policies that made poverty p rofitable, a lot fewer people would choose poverty...
...Leslie Lenkowsky's essay on "The Significance of FAP" in the June-Sept...
...I can't...
...ERRATUM Doe to confusion in this office, a statement in John Lulves' June-Sept...
...The United States of course did not "sign" the 1954 Geneva Conference Cease-Fire, bet gave only hedged verbal support to the agreement...
...9 State of Siege: For professional Amerika-haters with no limits in endurance...
...9 Forty Carats: Can you endure another May-December romance...
...Mrs...
...I hope you all go to hell...
...But I find Ferrell's approach intellectually more substantial, and probably in the long run more important...
...Any number of Federal agencies, i~., O.E.O., EOs A.CJ.]J., HD.D., Hs Justice Dept., etc., will be only too glad to subsidize your stay at Walden's lacuna...
...9 Hitler: the Last Ten Days: Seems like a fortnight, but Alec Guiness is magnificent...
...28 The Al~'~ative October 1973...
...Raquel Welch with her two great attributes...
...guage...
...9 O Lucky Man: O not so lucky filmgoer, and oh my aching rump--it runs for days, or nearly...
...I know this, because I watch "Firing Line" and when I hear him use an unfamiliar word, I can always depend on some alert (?) journalist to use it in an article a clay or two later...
...9 The Harrad Experiment: Boys and girls shacking up at Har(vard)rod(cliff) with official blessing...
...I Tom Sawyer: For those who've never read Mark Twain, never intend to, hate literature, but love junky "family" movies...
...Would that the blaxploitation flickers had such style...
...Also, some hungry crocodiles, sharks, and a gaggle of rednecks straight from the Dodge ad...
...I have long suspected that most of Harvard's graduate students are on welfare, but I had hoped that llllle Altermtlye's contributors might be of a more productive sort...
...review of Robert F. Turner's monograph, Myths of the Vietnam War, was erroneously distorted...
...It seems to me that the problem of welfare can best be solved by a government that says "being poor is going to hurt...
...Call it a shameless statement if you will, but in a society where the proportion of people living On poverty has steadily declined an, d where there are pages and pages of jobs available in wont ads, I find it very hard to accept the idea that people are "locked into poverty...
...9 Live and Let Die: Agent 007 returns, via Roger Moore, who frowns nicely, and should do some sit-ups...
...Trashy and bering, propaganda to the last drop...
...9 Last Tango in Paris: Catch it before the Burger Court drives it underground...
...but ha hum, another Godfather spin-off...
...They're wrong...
...Charles A. Maser Associate Professor of Russian The George Washington University Washington, D.C...
...So what else is new...
...Perhaps you only mean that his dissertation cmcor~ '~velfare at Harvard University...
...Rosilond Steiner Chicago, Illinois To the Editor: Concerning Mr...
...This sorely needed doing, and Maddox's approach is probably the best as a semipublicistic tactic...
...9 The De~d...
...96 in the Blaxploitation Follies...
...Also for those (like your servant) who thought Richard Benjamin would never be anything but an utterly repulsive actor...
...the 96th lousy entry in the parade...
...9 The Last of Sheila: Devilishly clever, eh wot--for game freaks...
...If so, this one won't convert him, A touch of class...
...Five bucks for Brando's backside, inane dialogue (mostly mumbled), and Paris looking unusually ugly...
...Perhaps I misread your introductory note...
...John T. Pruitt, Jr...
...Barbara Mathews Hartford, Connecticut To the Editor: I have enjoyed Tbe Alten~e from the start, but the last two issues on the origins of the Cold War, revisionist history, and Truman's foreign policy have been superb and reflect high standards of quality...
...Your ethical systems are in the . . . . . What kind of Americans are you...
...Outrageous then, only a tad less so now...
...But if you ever feel like "going out on the land for a time" to "know the feelings of the Earth better" your best bet is California...
...If Mr...
...Doris Day and Rock Hudson did it better long ago, as did everyone else from 1930 on...
...So don't hold him accountable if he fails to understand that you're the Alternative to bbe...
...So thank God for Buckley, because without him the Oxford English Dictionary would hove passed on, here, unnoticed...
...Gary North Irvingtoa, New York To the Editor: Your June issue was very good, but I take exception to Leslie Lenkowsky's discussion of welfare...
...1.eslie Lenkowsky . . . is completing his doctoral thesis on welfare at Harvard University...
...But she /s tall (6' 2") and dynamite, if you like that sort of thing...
...9 Paper Moon: Ryan O'Neal, daughter Tatum, the Depression, and anyhow, nostalgia is in this month...
...Robert Mitchum shines...
...to malign Our President Which Art in Washington...
...And so would have beautiful words...
...William R. Van Cleave Associate Professor Politics and International Relations University of Southern California To the Editor: Let me extend my congratulations to you, though a bit belatedly, for publishing the two articles by Robert Ferrell on the revisionist historians...
...You should really try to pay your contributors more handsomely, so as to avoid this embarrassment...
...With that twit, Edward Albert, yet...
...9 A Touch of Class: Breathes there a man with soul so dead who hasn't stirred somewhere to the charms of Glenda Jackson...
...issue of your stellar journal, I notice that he is listed as follows...
...He has contributed a great deal to our Ion...
...William F. Buckley, Jr- has no peer-in or out of context...
...same genre...
...If the Right did it to President Kennedy (the once or the future President Kennedy), we would never hear the end of it...
...I loved it, but few other critics did...
...9 The Friends of Eddie Coyle: Boston looks great...
...Lots of evil Negroes butchering good guys...
...Anyway, give my best to Mr...
...9 Hail to the Chief: Came out last year as Hail...
...so do some of the corpses...
...But don't blame me if you feel ripped off...
...Walk upon my swimming pool...
Vol. 7 • October 1973 • No. 1
