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...Cowboy, the connection, Carl Lee turns in the best performance of the movie: he is bitter and cool with his eyes, his hands, his whole body. And in the role of Jim Dunn, the filmmaker who follows the others into the john for a fix, Roscoe Browne conveys insecurity and fear with stilted mannerisms and gauche use of hip slang. The four musicians (Freddie Redd, Piano; Jackie McLean, alto sax; Michael Mattos, bass; Larry Ritchie, drums) play hard-driving, original jazz of the Charlie Parker variety and are believable addicts as well...
...looks like Eleanor Roosevelt." Don Wright of the Miami News finds Johnson a slippery subject. "If you aren't sure you have him, you put him in a ten-gallon hat." In the same way and for the same reason, many cartoonists suit up the President in cowboy uniform, right down to the Texas boots...
Sunday, April 5 DISCOVERY (ABC, 1-1:30 p.m.). "The American Cowboy-Part II," with a visit to a modern ranch...
Kent Mackenzie, 34, a Californian, got his $10,000 by submitting three pictures with a total running time of one hour and 54 minutes. Two of Mackenzie's films are good, straightforward documentaries, one on a rodeo cowboy and the other on old people doomed to lose their homes to urban redevelopment in Los Angeles. But his really arresting accomplishment is a semidocumentary, full-length feature called The Exiles, a picture about American Indians as they live in Los Angeles today. Played by amateur actors like Delos Yellow Eagle and Frankie Red Elk, The Exiles slices a depressing...
...Social Darwinism. Wrote Jack London, the friend of the masses: "Socialism is devised so as to give more strength to these certain kindred favored races so that they may survive and inherit the earth to the extinction of the lesser, weaker races." Theodore Roosevelt declared: "The most vicious cowboy has more moral principle than the average Indian." Poet-Essayist Oliver Wendell Holmes described the Indians as a "sketch in red crayons of a rudimental manhood. The white man hunts him down like the wild beasts of the forest, and so the red-crayon sketch is rubbed out, and the canvas...