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...ache for the days of rock as a religion, with its electricity and excitement. A new religion might grant those of us with '60s mores and ideals living in the disenchanting '70s at least a brief reprieve from the raisin-less oatmeal that spews forth from supposedly FM rock radio stations without having to live in the past...
...less than "legally" obscene. The "uniquely pervasive presence" of broadcasting justifies such regulation, said Stevens, who tried to narrow the ruling to the facts of the case-an explicit comedy routine that could be heard by a child in the afternoon over New York's radio station WBAI-FM. Angrily dissenting, Brennan said that Stevens' rationale "could justify" banning Chaucer from the radio, as well as portions of the Watergate tapes and the Bible...
Since 1967 Simon Geller, now 58, has put in 85 hours a week running an FM radio station in Gloucester, Mass., spinning the records, answering the phone, writing the ads, maintaining the transmitter-all by himself. His annual earnings from the station have never topped $5,000. Last year a group of local businessmen and politicians asked the Federal Communications Commission to transfer Geller's license to them, claiming that his all-classical-music format was "not responsive to the needs of the community." They proposed to replace it with dinner music and public service programs...
...FM marks the directing debut of Cinematographer John A. Alonzo (Chinatown), who here reveals some rather provocative notions about film making. FM seems to be two hours of unedited footage thrown together without regard for the admittedly old-fashioned niceties of narrative movies; indeed, at any given moment, it is impossible to decipher what is going on in FM or to identify the characters onscreen. It is also quite difficult to make out what anyone is saying. In what must be the most innovative use of sound since Woody Allen's What's Up, Tiger Lily? (1966), Alonzo...
Alonzo's principal collaborator on FM is Ezra Sacks, a screenwriter with an unabashed affection for recent American movies. His script, which seems to be about a war between hip deejays and crass moneymen at a Los Angeles radio station, is a scrupulous homage to such entertainments as Car Wash and Between the Lines. At least one of his three jokes is right out of MASH. Film buffs will undoubtedly have a whale of a time picking out such references to other movies; viewers with a less academic bent may wonder if Sacks might not be trafficking in stolen...