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...heavier with the dry heaves." The film's only known star is Candice Bergen, a sometime article writer whose empathy for Indians antedates the film by several years. "The only reason I wanted to do this film," she says, "was because this is the first script I have read where the Indian was not saying 'How' and running around committing atrocities." Evidently she never saw John Ford's 1964 Cheyenne Autumn, or Abraham Polonsky's current Willie Boy, but when you finally and fully realize that Custer died for your sins, a few innocent films...
...going according to script? Hardly. Last week Richard Nixon sent his budget back to the chopping block. Budget Director Robert Mayo, though aware on that Saturday night of the second thoughts developing in high places, had no instructions to stop the machinery. Treasury Secretary David Kennedy and his economists were skeptical about economic forecasts and revenue estimates supporting the prediction of a surplus. Real growth in the gross national product (GNP) had all but ceased in the final quarter of 1969. Continued doldrums (see BUSINESS) would mean lower tax yields. That concern brought Kennedy into agreement with Economist Arthur Burns...
Asian Affairs. Agnew ignored both the demonstrators and the flurry of press criticism. He stuck to his script and reiterated the so-called Nixon Doctrine: "Despite a great deal of speculation and rumor, we are not withdrawing from Asia and the Pacific. The United States will keep its treaty commitments. Our policy is neither one of gradual withdrawal from Asia nor of unwarranted intervention in Asian affairs. As a Pacific power, we will remain in the Pacific." Both in Australia and New Zealand, Agnew's last foreign stop, the Vice President said that the U.S. was committed...
...Marciano, who had been retired for 14 years, trained off 53 Ibs. and was fitted with a toupee. He and Muhammad Ali pounded away for three days, faking every contingency that could occur in a fight. Then the film editor cut and spliced the footage to match the computer script. Some sequences were still missing, and the boxers were brought back for two more days of shooting...
...Under Sidney Lumet's flashbackward direction, the acting proves a match for Gore Vidal's hysteroid script. Coburn emotes in a style that was once the exclusive province of Popeye. Lynn Redgrave, tricked out in a miniskirted bridal gown, looks rather appealingly like a marshmallow on toothpicks. But her accent, a mixture of two Birminghams?Alabama's and England's?must be heard to be disbelieved. Even Hooks ?normally a powerful and discreet actor?is lost in this raucous ménagerie à trois...