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...least as far as this fall's movie crop is concerned. Close on the heels of the high-powered but uneven A Thousand Acres, and preceding The House of Yes and the much-anticipated The Ice Storm, comes the The Myth of Fingerprints, the debut feature of writer/director Bart Freundlich...
...Freundlich invokes the Chekhovian in both his unsentimental depiction of each family member's half-comic, half-pathetic weaknesses and his deliberate avoidance of a cinematically neat closure. Unfortunately, his script falls short of making the characters sufficiently three-dimensional to earn our empathy. We really learn only one or two things about each of them: that Warren's never gotten over his breakup with Daphne; that Jake's still struggling to say "I love you" to Margaret; and that Leigh hasn't outgrown being the baby of the family, though she's found time for an unaccountable but placid...
Blue Dog by George Rodrigue and Lawrence S. Freundlich (Viking; $45). The hottest Louisiana purchase since the paperback rights to Anne Rice's vampire novels is a Blue Dog painting by the canny Cajun artist George Rodrigue, whose striking work can be found not only at his New Orleans gallery but also in Carmel, California, and abroad. Posed with barnyard animals or buxom nudes, Blue Dog is a captivating and mysterious mutt who stares out at readers with zonky yellow eyes. Did someone put hashish in her biscuits? No. As B.D. "explains," she is the cerulean ghost of the artist...
Miss Pishmish herself worked under the German Professor Freundlich, who was Head of the Department of Astronomy at Istanbul until he left for Prague a short time ago. She interpreted his German and English lectures, and investigated the "K-effect...
...Freundlich Inc. for infringing their copyright by manufacturing Betty Boop dolls. The case came before famed Judge John M. Woolsey, in the same handsomely appointed Bar Association Building court room where two months ago he handed down his historic decision on Joyce's Ulysses (TIME, Dec. 18). After examining a Betty Boop doll and specimens of the real Betty Boop, Judge Woolsey ordered Ralph A. Freundlich Inc. to stop making the dolls, ordered an accounting of their profits. Like his famed decision in the case of the U. S. v. Ulysses, Judge Woolsey 's opinion was accompanied...