Brudnoy's Index
Brudnoy, David
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....
...I became ~ sicker still when I discovered where they had shipped me...
...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...
...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...
...Chips gone to a South Carolina sea of sound and vermin signifying piflte...
...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...
...Vicious arm contemptibly conniving, a to-be-avoided-atall-costs disaster...
...A botch of a film, but in moments sublime...
...Dear Dr...
...I think that I shall never see, a house as lovely as a tree...
...rake in the bread, moviemakers...
...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...
...Gregory Peck (how the m The Exorcist: The devil made her do mighty have fallen) in brogue and wounds it...
...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...
...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...
...Plunkitt: had a meal on one of those flying grease I have a terrible problem...
...island to teach Negro kids...
...The sets are fabulous, here and there it zings, it is athletic...
...m The Tall Blond Man With One Black Shoe: Easy French farce, chuckles rather than guffaws, a souffi6 for fans of the droll...
...Did you ever see 250-pound stewardbly know I have been imprisoned by Corn- esses who are only five feet tall...
...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...
...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...
...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...
...Who are they trying to kid...
...m McQ: John Wayne ditto...
...11, Box 360, Bloomington, Indiana 47401, Continental U.S.A...
...GWP Brudnoy's Film Index m Billy Two Hats: Desi...
...It went merrily to work, Negroes in the audience hissed it...
...Address all correspondence to The Bootblack Stand, c/o The Establishment, R.R...
...S. Bear, Chairperson Friends of the Dearth Dear Mr...
...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...
...m Papillon: Butterflies aren't free...
...m The Stin...
...Go and drool, sanguinary film-goers...
...Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Dear Mr...
...You cry blasphemy...
...Newman, Redford, the thirties...
...m Sleeper: Woody Allen at the top of his form, a superlative parody of twenty-second-century America...
...and Charlton Heston as Moses, er, urn, Richelieu, that is...
...I was sick munist secret police and harassed most of my adult life...
...28 The Alternative May 1974...
...Arnaz Jr...
...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...
...Pretty colors, stupid dialogue, preposterous throughout...
...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...
...it's not and then...
...The future, ~ la John Boorman...
...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...
...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...
...What can I do...
...David Rockefeller could get you a job in his new Moscow branch of the Chase Manhattan Bank...
...Incidentally, why are you saying all those unkind things about our heroic Russian allies...
...in and on, this exquisitelittle gem of a French make-up and buckskins as Breed(from film about French filmmaking...
...m Day of the Dolphin: George C. Scott and Flipper redivivus...
...half-breed, get it...
...Although Dr...
...Plunkitt: We think Nixon's call for self-sufficiency in energy is terrible...
...m Zardo...
...A1 Pacino fashionable for whites to care about their colored brethren, and "Black is beautiful...
...A corrective to the boredom of afternoon television and the heebie-jeebies of the cop-flick deluge...
...Thenmnothing much...
...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...
...church, any church...
...McQueen, Hoffman, and French Guiana's prison system in an endless, humorless, but more power to it...
...As you proba- pits...
...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...
...With Sean (James Bond) Connery looking beafy and acting as if robots sired him...
...I'm for the criminals...
...lovable con men outwitting the baddies...
...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...
...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...
...Everyone knows it will lead to the use of natural resources, which is immoral...
...GWP Dear Dr...
...What can we do about this man they call Nixon...
...Unfortunately this would take too long so I suggest you get a job driving a Pepsi-Cola truck, or perhaps Mr...
...but high comedy it isn't...
...a toss-up as to who's got the more advanced brain, the porpoise or his film exploiters...
Vol. 7 • May 1974 • No. 8
