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Dates: during 1970-1970
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Halston's tie-dyed young and not so young include Actress Ali MacGraw, Best-Dresser Babe Paley, Vogue Editor Robin Butler and Model Naomi Sims. Film Star Liza Minnelli has commissioned Halston to dress her in tie-dye for her Waldorf opening next month...
...There will be a lecture on blood and fluid replacement in the mess hall," booms the squawk box, which becomes in time one of the film's most important characters. At intervals it announces the Friday-night movie-always a World War II film-by tonelessly chanting ancient ad campaigns: "The Glory Brigade . . . Uncle Sam's combat engineers showing the world a new way to fight, using bulldozers like bazookas . . . starring Victor Mature." In the closing footage, the last movie announced is "M.A.S.H. . . . follow the zany antics of our combat surgeons snatching laughs and loves between amputations...
Arterial Gushes. In making the most radical American comedy since Dr. Strangelove, Director Robert Altman decided that nothing succeeds like excess. Often he is right. M.A.S.H. begins where other antiwar films end-after the shells have exploded. Only two shots are fired in the movie, and both come from a referee's starting gun during a hilariously corrupt intraservice football game. Instead, there are the results of bullets; men bleed on-camera in great arterial gushes. The wounded are flown in on helicopters and stain their sheets as they die silently. The film's two main characters retain...
...movie. Its furious humor arises from the collaboration of Lardner and Airman, who swing the scenario like a baseball bat. Not infrequently, they shatter the wrong objectives; a parody of the Last Supper, for example, is utterly without wit or point. But most of the time the film is a moon reflecting the sun of battle. War assaults taste, language, sense itself. So do the soldiers who fight it. So do the doctors who aid the soldiers. So does M.A.S.H., animated with a dangerously robust sick humor and a highly civilized savagery. An audience should approach this film...
ALTHOUGH Z is a very elating and exciting film, it could also be very disturbing. Its arrival in the U. S. came at a time when the President sent a new ambassador to Greece and when the Senate voted not to reduce military aid. That tragic country is only important to this country's government as a NATO ally and a choice opportunity for Coca-Cola and Litton Industries. The heroes of Z have either been bumped off or impounded in remote islands and communities around Greece. Hopefully, Z will impress its viewers not only as exciting drama and good...