The Bootblack Stand
Plunkitt, George Washington
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....
...m Papillon: Butterflies aren't free...
...28 The Alternative May 1974...
...m The Tall Blond Man With One Black Shoe: Easy French farce, chuckles rather than guffaws, a souffi6 for fans of the droll...
...Incidentally, why are you saying all those unkind things about our heroic Russian allies...
...GWP Dear Dr...
...Arnaz Jr...
...I think that I shall never see, a house as lovely as a tree...
...m McQ: John Wayne ditto...
...m The Stin...
...Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Dear Mr...
...David Rockefeller could get you a job in his new Moscow branch of the Chase Manhattan Bank...
...m Zardo...
...Unfortunately this would take too long so I suggest you get a job driving a Pepsi-Cola truck, or perhaps Mr...
...You cry blasphemy...
...With Sean (James Bond) Connery looking beafy and acting as if robots sired him...
...I became ~ sicker still when I discovered where they had shipped me...
...half-breed, get it...
...Thenmnothing much...
...Plunkitt expects to earn ten million dollars from sales of his new book, he has agreed to continue to advise public figures through this column...
...I have written about life in Russian concentration camps and about torture at the hands of Communist thugs, but I had not realized how advanced have become the KGB techniques of torture until they put me on a Russian commercial jet and flew me into exile...
...The future, ~ la John Boorman...
...Plunkitt: had a meal on one of those flying grease I have a terrible problem...
...Mayhaps, but i t / s as Arch, two petty baddies escaping the compelling, if like a cobra's tango, and it's marshall in de old West, Dreariness incar- doing wonders bringing folks back to nate...
...Although Dr...
...m The Three Musketeers: Dumas' smashing tale filmed yet again, this one as spoof, with everyone and his brother (and sister) tagging along for the fun: Michael York, Oliver Reed~ Richard Chamberlain, Simon Ward, Raquel Welch (Raquel Who...
...Side-splitting oneliners, Keatonesque sight gags, a wonderful world of benign dictatorship where, grace h Dieu, the biodegradable peanuttake the law in your own hands and clean up evil, Sheriff Buford Pusser (Joe Don Baker...
...11, Box 360, Bloomington, Indiana 47401, Continental U.S.A...
...m Sleeper: Woody Allen at the top of his form, a superlative parody of twenty-second-century America...
...m Day of the Dolphin: George C. Scott and Flipper redivivus...
...Plunkitt: We think Nixon's call for self-sufficiency in energy is terrible...
...When I saw it in preview, out cop corruption...
...Plunhitt's book is about the importance of altruism in politics and it is titled What's in It for Me...
...m Busting: Vice-squad cops Elliot Gould and Robert Blake doing society's most crucial work: busting whores, raiding gay bars, intercepting marijuana peddlers, frustrated by the crime lord's muscle and cop connivance...
...Gregory Peck (how the m The Exorcist: The devil made her do mighty have fallen) in brogue and wounds it...
...m Blazing Saddles: Mel Brooks' mad m Five on the Black Hand Side: For spoof of western shoot-em-ups, starring once, the Negro as human being...
...Vicious arm contemptibly conniving, a to-be-avoided-atall-costs disaster...
...Dear Dr...
...And now after reading the newspapers about American politics and the British elections I desire but one thing, I want to be shipped back to Russia...
...What can we do about this man they call Nixon...
...S. Bear, Chairperson Friends of the Dearth Dear Mr...
...lovable con men outwitting the baddies...
...They look smashing in their duds-of a comedy, but after "Shaft's Last Crap," and watch the couture here and in the or whatever those things are called, it's a up-coming Great Gatsby set off a new fashmuch-needed relief, ion movement...
...I was sick munist secret police and harassed most of my adult life...
...island to teach Negro kids...
...Did you ever see 250-pound stewardbly know I have been imprisoned by Corn- esses who are only five feet tall...
...in and on, this exquisitelittle gem of a French make-up and buckskins as Breed(from film about French filmmaking...
...emerge with a dry eye, it's that maudlin, but Voight is vibrant, the kids are winning, the dilemma of the individual versus encrusted societal regimentation gets y e t an- York created its Knapp Commission to rout other go-around...
...m Day for Night: And on it goes, and on alternately hopelessly idealistic in the liberal _9 direction and depressingly cynical, m Walking Tall: The most amazing comeAlas, the facts square with the film: New back in recent film history, this bomb in early 1973 has found its audience at last: is splendid as Frank Serpico...
...Solzhenitsyn: The surest way to get back into Russia is to become an American businessman-especially if you are in one of those "nonstrategic" industries like petroleum production or the production of heavy-duty trucks...
...Who are they trying to kid...
...Have you ever throughout the flight and my air bag had a hole in it...
...m Conrack: Jon Voight as a hip modern sweaty multimillion-dollar epic botch full Mr...
...The sets are fabulous, here and there it zings, it is athletic...
...A botch of a film, but in moments sublime...
...Go and drool, sanguinary film-goers...
...The plot is juicy, contrived, m Magnum Force: Dirty Harry (Ciint Eastwood) back, now routing out fascistic rookie cops whose trip is offing criminals beyond the Law's reach...
...and Charlton Heston as Moses, er, urn, Richelieu, that is...
...Not much Black Bart, the Negro sheriff (Cleavon Little), villain Hedley Lamarr (Harvey Korman), Brooks as a Yiddish-speaking Indian chief and a moronic governor, and assorted jokes as old as the hills and as new as Hollywood's latest starlet...
...Address all correspondence to The Bootblack Stand, c/o The Establishment, R.R...
...A corrective to the boredom of afternoon television and the heebie-jeebies of the cop-flick deluge...
...Chips gone to a South Carolina sea of sound and vermin signifying piflte...
...Newman, Redford, the thirties...
...Pretty colors, stupid dialogue, preposterous throughout...
...A1 Pacino fashionable for whites to care about their colored brethren, and "Black is beautiful...
...but high comedy it isn't...
...It went merrily to work, Negroes in the audience hissed it...
...GWP Brudnoy's Film Index m Billy Two Hats: Desi...
...church, any church...
...What can I do...
...Bear: Is there any truth to the rumor that rather than bury your dead you people merely put the corpse in a compacter and glue one of those idiotic little smile stickers to the resultant parchment...
...a toss-up as to who's got the more advanced brain, the porpoise or his film exploiters...
...rake in the bread, moviemakers...
...McQueen, Hoffman, and French Guiana's prison system in an endless, humorless, but more power to it...
...you can't m Serpico:'A bit rough around the edges, butter crazes of today have been shown to be dangerous to your health, and folks eat steak and potatoes--and get it off in isolation booths...
...As you proba- pits...
...Everyone knows it will lead to the use of natural resources, which is immoral...
...I'm for the criminals...
...it's not and then...
Vol. 7 • May 1974 • No. 8
