Word: film
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There have been other examples lately, demonstrating how people in authority have grown sensitive about spoofing. The Army and Air Force Motion Picture Service, for example, has banned the film M*A*S*H, an admittedly gory burlesque of war, from service installations. It is difficult to imagine that anything can be done to relieve such unremitting solemnity. Satire that evokes so strong a reaction may be rough on the target, but it usually contains at least a few grains of truth. To argue that, however, only increases official outrage. The basic problem is that some police and military brass...
...party for film makers in the U.S. embassy residence in Buenos Aires, Jack Valenti of the Motion Picture Association of America presented a print of the movie The Scarlet Empress to Ambassador John Davis Lodge. Empress, a 1934 swashbuckler about Catherine the Great, starred Marlene Dietrich and a long-haired cavalier few friends would now recognize as balding Ambassador Lodge...
...those who don't know-a classification that nowadays excludes most of the population of Chicago-Roger Ebert is the young (27), brash film critic of the city's sprightly tabloid, the Sun-Times. Ebert's chatty, erudite reviews -abetted after hours at O'Rourke's by a repertory of trade union songs, trivia recollections and Irish anecdotes, boisterously rendered at a drop of Tullamore Dew-have elevated him to what Saturday Review Film Critic and Friend Arthur Knight calls "a cultural resource of the community...
Ebert's detractors accuse him of liking second-rate films more than he should. Nonsense, he says. "You can take any film and criticize it for what it is not. But I believe each movie has to be judged on the level of its own ambitions. If you try to apply the same yardstick to the new Godard and the new John Wayne [two of his alltime heroes], you're probably missing the point of both films...
...those criteria, he judged tick . . . tick . . . tick, a movie about a black man who gets elected sheriff of a Southern town, superior to Putney Swope, a raucous but innovative film about a black man who takes over a white ad agency. "I know that is heresy," he wrote. "I know Putney Swope is the currently fashionable put-down of the Establishment. I know . . . but just the same, you should have been there in the Roosevelt Theater Saturday night. There wasn't an empty seat. The audience accepted tick . . . tick . . . tick with joy, laughter and applause. And the laughter...