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Robert Redford ... Has Turned Almost Alarmingly Blond-he's Gone Past Platinum, He Must Be Into Plutonium; His Hair Is Coordinated With His Teeth.

Movies That Are Consciously Life-affirming Are To Be Consciously Avoided.

The Romance Of Movies Is Not Just In Those Stories And Those People On The Screen But In The Adolescent Dream Of Meeting Others Who Feel As You Do About What You’ve Seen.

At The Movies, We Are Gradually Being Conditioned To Accept Violence As A Sensual Pleasure. The Directors Used To Say They Were Showing Us Its Real Face And How Ugly It Was In Order To Sensitize Us To Its Horrors. You Don't Have To Be Very Keen To See That They Are Now In Fact Desensitizing Us.

He [bernardo Bertolucci] Has The Kind Of Talent That Breaks One's Heart: Where Can It Go, What Will Happen To It? In This Country We Encourage 'creativity' Among The Mediocre, But Real Bursting Creativity Appalls Us. We Put It Down As Undisciplined, As Somehow 'too Much.' Well, Before The Revolution Is Too Much And That Is What Is Great About It. Art Doesn't Come In Measured Quantities: It's Got To Be Too Much Or It's Not Enough.