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...society, always exaggerated, had largely spent itself. But Nixon chose to run against the 1960s - against radicalism, excess, permissiveness - a strategy in which he was greatly aided by McGovern's ill-considered and irresponsible economic schemes, and by the vaguely "revolutionary" slogans put about by some of his wilder and woollier supporters...
Thursday's Game (1974). A made-for-TV movie, but it sounds good. (Anything with Gene Wilder, Rob Reiner, Valerie Harper and Bob Newhart couldn't be all bad.) This is about a game show producer who gets depressed, or something like that. Ch. 5, 8:30 p.m. Color, 2 hours...
Jack Lemmon deserved to be named best actor years ago for Billy Wilder's The Apartment --he won the award for Save the Tiger this year, where he plays a businessman who's shrewdly shady activities are justified, in the film's scheme of things, by the pressures around...
...Billy Wilder's Stalag 17 with William Holden and Otto Preminger, Friday, March...
Given enough patience and endurance, readers can piece together several contradictory Faulkners strewn through Blotner's chronicle. There was the country humorist whose quips kept strangers at bay. (After listening to Thornton Wilder eagerly discuss the meaning of the title Light in August, Faulkner replied: "You know I never thought of that. It just sounded pretty.") The loving father vies with the tyrant who once told his daughter Jill: "Nobody remembers Shakespeare's children." Faulkner's Nobel Prize acceptance speech rang with hope: "I believe that man will not merely endure; he will prevail." Yet at practically...