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Life Is Not a Rehearsal David Brudnoy Doubleday 1299 pages / $22.95 REVIEWED BY Matthew Scully I t's been two years since David Brudnoy, the popular radio host and conservative writer, turned up...

Brudnoy's Film Index (August 1976)

David Brudnoy Brudnoy's Film Index Face to Face: Ingmar Bergman scores once more, bringing the invariably incomparable Liv Ullmann on to enact a nervous breakdown of majestic conviction. With...

Brudnoy's Film Index (June 1976)

David Brudnoy Brudnoy's Film Index • • • The Bad News Bears: Kids should be seen referably playing baseball—and never, ever heard. That might be Butter-maker's (Walter Matthau's) philosophy,...

Brudnoy's Film Index (April 1976)

David Brudnoy Brudnoy's Film Index • • ^ All Screwed Up: Monstrously translated title (in Italian, Tutto a Posto e Niente in Ordine, literally " everything ' s in order but nothing works") for...

Brudnoy's Film Index (March 1976)

David Brudnoy Brudnoy's Film Index • The Best of 1975... ^ The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes' Smarter Brother: Gene Wilder, Marty Feldman, Madeline,Kahn, and the ghost of Conan Doyle do nifty...

Brudnoy's Film Index (February 1976)

David Brudnay Brudnoy's Film Index A • ^ Breakout: There is this dreadful jail down Mexico way, and this perfectly innocent chap (Robert Duvall) rots therein, courtesy his wicked uncle ( John...

Brudnoy's Film Index (January 1976)

EDITORIAL (continued from page 4) manifest that he does not do it for the sake of historical accuracy. Subsequent to the publication of Breach of Faith various government investigations have...

Brudnoy's Film Index (December 1975)

David Brudnoy Brudnoy's Film Index ^ A Boy and His Dog: Not the latest Disney kiddie flick, this is a hugely muddled but fitfully intriguing sci-fi tale set fifty years in the future. Following...

Brudnoy's Film Index (November 1975)

David Brudnoy Brudnoy's Film Index •• ^ The Apple Dumpling Gang: The ,atest Disney, this one stars Bill Bixby, )on Knotts, Susan Clark, some oh-sodorable wee darling kids, Tim Conway, bout...

Brudnoy's Index (October 1975)

Altman has stamped his films with the distinctive mark of his personality, which embodies the tension between experience and intellect, between the material of American popular culture and his own...

Brudnoy's Film Index (August 1975)

tion people in Washington are asking is—does the United States have a legal or moral commitment to defend Chicago? Legally, the answer is no. Chicago is not a signatory to either the SEATO or NATO...

Brudnoy's Film Index (June 1975)

father, Al Pacino, and the stuff he is doing in 1958, and that of the original, GF-II's father, who was brought lovingly to life by Marlon Brando in the original Godfather. Only Brando wouldn't play...

Brudnoy's Film Index (May 1975)

"Brudnoy's Film Index" Abby: The Exorcist in blackface. Poor sweet Abby gets possessed, and is she a terror when she's on. Rest easy: the black preacher man saves her from the nasty demon and we all go home happy, all...

Brudnoy's Film Index (April 1975)

"Brudnoy's Film Index" The best of 1974 Amarcord Fellini remembers—his boyhood, papa Mussolini, adolescent horny days and nights, the town floozie and the town sage, schoolboy pranks, and the first tentative...

Brudnoy's Film Index (March 1975)

"Brudnoy's Film Index" Amarcord: Fellini's magnificent reminiscence of his 1930s boyhood. A lusty, loving, wry, and tender ramble through the four seasons and the many conditions of humankind. No sloppy sentimentality,...

Egalitarianism as a Revolt against Nature (March 1975)

"Egalitarianism as a Revolt against Nature" Professor Rothbard is a little engine that could. He is young (as philosopher giants go), brilliant, tireless, generous, and open. He has a couple of great works under his belt—Man, Economy and...

Brudnoy's Film Index (February 1975)

Brudnoy's Film Index (January 1975)

"Brudnoy's Film Index" The Abdication: Why (maybe) Sweden's Queen Christina left her throne in 1654 to find happiness as a Catholic chasing after the Vatican cardinals. Liv Ullmann and Peter Finch, back from that Lost...

Brudnoy's Film Index (December 1974)

Brudnoy's Film Index - Federico Fellini's magnificent reminiscence of his 1930s boyhood. A lusty, loving, wry, and tender ramble through the four seasons and the many conditions of...

Brudnoy's Film Index (November 1974)

"Brudnoy's Film Index" The Marx Brothers—all four; count 'em—in a 1930s flop, their second film, a warmup for their triumphs later. Well, as Groucho says in response to a bloated industrialist's...

Brudnoy's Film Index (October 1974)

"Brudnoy's Film Index" Animal Crackers: The Four Marx Brothers in their second film, written, like their greats, by George S. Kaufman and Morrie Ryskind. But this 1930 dud is static, stagey, dull for great stretches. An...

Brudnoy's Index (June 1974)

_9 Blazing Saddles: Mel Brooks' spoof of western shoot-em-ups, starring Black Bart, the Negro sheriff (Cleavon Little), villain Hedley Lamarr (Harvey Korman), fast-gun Gene Wilder as the Kid,...

Plain Speaking (June 1974)

Dr. George Washington Plunkitt, our prize-winning political analyst, is celebrating the publication of his new book, which is now available at avant-garde bookstores throughout New Jersey. Dr....

Brudnoy's Index (May 1974)

Dr. George Washington Plunkitt, our prize-winning political analyst, is celebrating the publication of his new book, which is now available at avant-garde bookstores throughout New Jersey. Dr....

Brudnoy's Index (April 1974)

"Brudnoy's Index" Vice-squad cops Elliot Gould and Robert Blake doing society's most important work: busting whores, raiding gay bars, intercepting dope peddlers, frustrated by...

Brudnoy's Film Index (March 1974)

"Brudnoy's Film Index" A hymn of praise to the art of plastic surgery, face- and breastlift variety. Elizabeth Taylor is old, old old old and her husband, Henry Fonda, is hot for young stuff, so...

Talkies (November 1973)

"Talkies" thoughtlessly absorbed large doses of the mental meat tenderizer of American academia----clich6 leftism. What seems to have been forgotten by Dr. Conant and the worse things that have...

"Queer-Baiting..." Reconsidered (October 1973)

In February of 1973 The Alternative featured two essays in its "PERSPECTIVES" forum on homosexuality and the significance of the family. Each was independently written. David Bruclnoy in...

Talkies (June 1973)

loads the system" with hypochondriacs which "actually interferes with the care of the sick." The same criticism has been leveled at socialized medicine. Proponents of a nationalized HMO claim,...

The Living Legacy of Frank S. Meyer (April 1973)

located in school. Once out and on their own, one trusts for them a healthier life. Whether or not this picture is unfair is not important. Actually it is less unfair than oversimplified, the...

Queer-Baiting for Faith, Fun, and Profit (February 1973)

Queer-Baiting for Faith, Fun, and Profit This is the second of our PERSPECTIVE essays. As urith the first, it does not necessarily reflect the views of the Editor or The Alternative staff. Then...

Lap Dogs (January 1973)

Movie Review: Lap Dogs There are films like The Ruling Class, so bitingly pungent, so wittily acid in good moments, that one almost forgives, but not forgets, the pervasive obstinacy of theme: in...

Man vs. Nature; Man vs. Maleness (December 1972)

Movie Review: Man vs. Nature; Man vs. Maleness "It's clever, but is it art?" Kipling asked, as must all film critics almost each time we see a noteworthy film. Film is the people's art; the books...

Black Mischief (November 1972)

David Brudnoy: Black Mischief From Stepin Fetchit to slaughter (" Jim Brown is Another Black Superman!" blares the New York Daily News): Progress. The Negro has been discovered as human being. He...

The American Theatre, 1969-1970 (April 1972)

"The American Theatre, 1969-1970" As this hook is highly innovative methodologically, it is particularly lamentable that the behavioralists, in their preoccupation with "method," should ignore it. Kendall and Carey have fused...

Cruising Speed: A Documentary (December 1971)

"Cruising Speed: A Documentary" Of course, the Fraser solution to a real problem like Japan's would be more careful planning, more rigid control, further...

The Panid in Needle Park (November 1971)

22 The A l t e r n a t i v e November, 1971 In Lenin we see Marx put into practice. The Communist Party is that gnostic group which possesses the secret knowledge of the future...

The Media and the Panthers (May 1971)

The Media and the Panthers David Brudnoy "Irresponsible" is a word not usually applied in New England to the operations of the New York Times and the Washington Post. But that charge was leveled...

Gov't Inspected Meat (April 1971)

Rader's Nadir Gov't Inspected Meat and Other Fun Summer Things Dotson Rader McKay, $5.95 Mr. Dotson Rader is a very personable twenty-seven-year-old who confesses, or boasts, that "the...

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