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Brautigan Poet &
Buckley pseudo-
Richard
author
William F,
Intellectual
Sen. Ted Kennedy
Desmond Morris author of
The Naked Ape
Lawarence Fehrlinghetti poet
Norman Mailer author & sort
of modern Baccus
Truman Capote author
Paul Ehrlich ecologist
Herbert Marcuse Marxist
philosopher
Milton Friedman economist
Rev. Jessie Jackson militant
black minister
Gore Vidal author of Myra
Breckenridge
Mayor John Lindsay good guy
Marshall McCluhan only real
Renaissance man alive
John Kenneth
Galbraith economist
Phillip Roth author of
Portnoy's Complaint
Sam Br own Moratorium
coordinator
Sen. George McGovern
James Baldwin author
Sen. Edward Muskie
Theodore H. White author
Leon Panetta ex head of civil
rights enforcement for HEW
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. author of
Cat's Cradle, Slaughter House
Five
Tom ' Wolfe author of The
Kood-ald Acid Test
Ken Kesey author of One
Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest,
and originator of the Kool-aid
Acid Test
Isaac Asimov science fiction
writer
Werner Von Braun creator of
Amerika's contribution t o
phallic symbols of the world
David Suskind Buckley's
alter-ego
Robert Heinlein author of
Stranger in a Strang Land
Peter Fonda Omaha's own
Dennis Hopper director of
"Easy Rider"
John Barth author
Richard Hofstadter Political
Scientist & historian
Saul Bellow author
James Kunen author of The
Strawberry Statement
Joseph Heller author of Catch
22
J P. Donleavy author of The
Ginger Man
Alan Ginsberg
L. B. J. anyone? Hurry
Buckmlnister Fuller creator
of the geodesic dome
Michael Lydon rock critic
John Horsey author of The
Algiers Motel Incident
Sonny Barger ex-presldent of
Oakland chapter of the Hell's
Angcis '
Carl Stokes Mayor of
Cleveland
Richard Hatcher Mayor of
Gary, Indiana
Sir Laurence Olivier actor
and director
Tennessee Williams play
wright Edward Albceplaywrlght
Harold Pinter playwright
Tom Stoppard' 'Roscncrantz
and Guildenstcrn Are Dead"
Robert Bolt playwright of "A
Man For All Seasons"
Hollls Alport movie critic for
"The Saturday Review"
Pauline Kael movie reviewer
Gloria Steinem Journalist
Susan Sontag she does about
everything
John Ciardl poet
Norman Cousins of the
"Saturday Review"
Evil Kanevll planning to Jump
the Grand Canyon on his
motorcycle
Peter Sellers actor
Lee Marvin apostle of evil
Paul Schofield actor
Cesar Chavez chlcano
Movie review by KELLEY BAKER
Perhaps it would be best to see a film without having
first been influenced by a big build up . . . for even
if anticipation Is an important part of pleasure, shattered
hopes can be worse than none.
I was watching the Dick Cavett Show a few weeks
ago and among his guests were Robert Blake ("In Cold
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Jeremy Larner new left
writer
James Earl Jones actor, star
of "The Great White Hope"
Gerald S. Hawkins author of
Stonehenge Decoded
Terry Southern black
humorist, author of Candy
Vine Deloria, Jr. author of
Custer Died for Your Sins
Wiseman director of
"Highschool" & " Tilllcut
Follies"
Kozil author of Death at an
Early Age
John Holt author of How
Children Fail
Alan Watts author of The
Book
Gary Snyder Poet and
author Earth Household
John Updike author
Ralph Nader perhaps our
saviour
Studs Terkel Chicago
journalist
Haskel Wexler director of
"Medium Cool"
Philip Hart senator from
Michigan
Averill Harriman statesman
Dean Acheson statesman
George Kennan statesman
Shirley Knight director of
"One Potato, Two Potato"
Mike Nichols movie director
Orson Welles actor, movie
director
Billy Kidd super skier
Hunter S. Thompson free
lance writer & auther of The
Hell's Angels
Gordon Parks-poet, "Life"
photographer
John Knowles author of The
Magnus & The French Lt.'s
Woman
John Cage contempory com
poser & Inventor of "the hap
pening" Margret Mead anthropologist
Vladimir Nabokov author of
Lolita & Ada
Jerry Rubin Yippe! & Chicago
7
Abbie Hoffman Yippe! &
Chicago 7
David Dellenger pacifist and
Chicago 7
Tom Hayden founder of SDS
& Chicago 7
Rennle Davis Chicago 7
John Froines Chicago 7
Lee Weiner Chicago 7
William Kunstler defense at
torney Chicago 7
Noam Chomsky March on The
Pentagon . 1966, inventor of
Transformational Grammar, to
name a few things.
James Healey leader of the
Kansas City Black Panthers
Abraham J. Heschel theolo
gian Strom T h urmond South
Carolina's own
Michael Chritchton author of
The Andromeda Strain
Robert Lowell poet
Sen. Alan Cranston
R. Crumb Zap Comics
J. R. R. Tolkien
Nicol Williamson director of
his interpretation of "Hamlet"
Stanley Kubrick director of
"2001"
Neil Armstrong the All
American Boy
Arthur Penn llrector of
"Alice's Restaurant"
Arron Copeland contemporary
compoer
Frank Zappa the ugliest
Mother of them all
D. A. Pennebaker maker of
the documentary film on Bob
Dylan, "Don't Look Back"
Sol Stern ex "Ramparts"
editor & Rock critic
Robert Bly poet
Mark Rudd
Viva
Mae West
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Danco to
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interviewer and movie columnist. After Blake was introduc
ed, Reed said that he felt "Willie Boy" was one of the
ten best films of the year.
Then they ran a film clip from the movie and I
started looking forward to seeing it I later read that
the "New York Times" had rated It in their top ten
and ascerblc "Time" gave it raves and I couldn't wait
till "Willie Boy" arrived.
The reason I mention this Is that "Willie Boy" did
not live up to its notices. This fact was disappointing
enough but the film fell far short of its potential and
this was especially disappointing.
Instead of concentrating of the white-red relations that
should be the main issue, Abe Polonsky weakens the film
with too much emphasis on the chase scene, Robert Red
ford's sex life, cliche characters end other extraneous mat
ters. "Willie Boy" could have made a significant statement
about the white man's treatment of the Indians and about
minority-majority relations but it mumbled, content to be
slick and gimmicky.
The ultimate irony in this film is that two parts which
should be played by people who at least look like Indians
are filled by the least Indian-looking actors in the film
(just a little more red discrimination). Robert Redford,
as usual, plays a part which doesn't begin to tap his
ability (after three of these in a row it makes you wonder
If Indeed he has any ability.)
Katherine Ross is mercifully limited to fewer than ten
lines. You don't need a program to tell the good guys
from the bad ones, just follow Edith Head's fashion tips:
both good women in white, sheriff is camp in bis bellbottoms,
etc.
Polonsky stooped to some obvious tricks that were a
bit obvious: cute .transitions from nude ti nude and crying
woman to crying woman that juxtapose the white-white
relationship with the red-red relationship and nauseate you
too.
All In all, "Willie Boy" Is not a horrible film, just
a disappointing one so don't expect too much if you
go.
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