Take One (Mar 15, 1979)

LETTERS continued from page 4 didn’t pick up on it being about the aftermath of the war effort (at least they didn’t see it as central). I'd like to mention one thing that I didn’t see in your article. (At the risk of bringing coals to Newcastle.) The first and last names of the primary ichthyologist were never given together, but did you notice what the name of this scientist _ CLASSIFIEDS _ MOVIE CLASSICS ON VIDEO CASSETTES: 100’s of titles—free list—Discount Video Tapes, P.O. Box 7122, Burbank, CA 91510 RARE SOUNDTRACK & SHOWS: Personalities, Opera, Symphonic, Big Bands, Jazz, Rock ‘n’ Roll, Books, Lots of nostalgia. 100 Page Catalog. $1.00 Domestic / $2.00 Overseas. Serendipity Record Rarities, P.O. Box 261, Dept. A, Bogota, New Jersey, 07603. Overseas requests welcomed. FOR SALE: Huge collection horror -/fantasy. stills, pressbooks, posters, transparencies, magazines, etc. from U.S., Europe. 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There seems to have been a great deal of point missing going on. Our postbag mostly contained reams of multi-syllabled and wholly irrelevant words which eventually spelled out everyone's favorite movies. Well—there’s nothing very funny about that, is there? Nobody split our sides, but free subs to those who managed to force a smile out of us. Competition No.2 By Richard King Even superheroes have problems coping with modern city living. In Superman Clark Kent searched desperately for a place he could change into his Superman suit. All he found was a modern seethrough telephone stall. Uh oh! Superman found a_ temporary solution to _ his problem. But what about next time? Where will the man of animation, but I’m sure he would not like to take credit for inventing the rotoscope away from dear old Max Fleischer who filed for a patent on December 6, 1915, a day after Walter Elias Disney’s four Sexually Inhibited Siamese Twin Eliminates Romantic Suitors R. Scott Renau Mill Valley, CA Silly Take Involving Nitwits Gambling Super Tremendous Astronomical Rite With Archaic Religious Symbolism Bitchy Adolescent Does Some Excessively Evil Deeds Collossally Long Essay On Princes And _ Tarts—Really Ancient Dennis Lynch Rapids, IA steel find a place to change? Send us your ideas. Be witty, be original, be faster than a speeding bullet. Superman needs your help. Example: THE PURLOINED LETTER TECHNIQUE: | If Clark Kent changed under a trench coat, he'd be taken fora mild-mannered flasher. No one would notice that he was actually changing into his superthreads. teenth birthday. Raul da Silva Rochester, New York Roasting Peary I am of late surprised and saddened by the decline of intelligence and sensitivity evidenced by some reviews that have managed to show up in TAKE ONE. Gerald Peary (reviewing James Naremore’s book, The Magic World of Orson Welles) seems to belong to an uncreative, somewhat dim-witted cult of sulking cinefanatics; one of their greatest attributes is to disparage artists who aren't creating enough “product” to brighten their lackluster existences. Artists like Welles are under no obligation, least of all dumb enough, to fall within the commercial studio entrapment of supply-and-demand. Buffs of Peary’s cloth aren’t only misguided but evidently brainwashed by the super-conglomerate dictum of massmarket merchandising regardless of lower quality; for, in the final analysis, that’s exactly the condition of our general commercial environment: lower quality. Calvin Thomas Beck Peary replies: Iam glad you so enjoyed my review, although | am not (ugh!) “a buff.’ Nor do I lead a lackluster existence, but don’t take the word of a “dim-witted cinefanatic.” Moreover, I stick to my guns: Welles is a lazy genius and should eat less and make more movies. One Way Street In Viertel and Colker’s article, “The New New Hollywood” (Sept. ’78) they claim that “The results prove that there are as many ways to get to the top as there are people who get there.” This is untrue. To answer their question, “Where did they come from, and how did they arrive?”, let me suggest that it doesn’t hurt to be white (all 7), male (6 out of 7), middle to upper-middle class (seemingly all), and to have gone to a major film school or Ivy League college (all except Landis, apparently). David Erik Wade