This hawk to the well meaning liberal schoolmaster, he says: "They come up to me and they say—is it tame?—is it heck tame, it's wild and that is what I like about it. It isn't tame-you can train them, but you can't tame them! Amonst other things, that is our hope for the working class in this country- -that they can't be tamed. It's interesting that hawks are trained on their bellies. First you starve them.get them "sharp' as it's called,then you hold a bit of mea out, and when they do what you tell them to do you give them the meat."
Kes is being put out in nine cinemas in Yorkshire. by ABPC, Rank's "rivals. who risk nothing but hope to cash in on ine enormous amount or publicity tne film has had, and—if it does well—show it in London.
Garnett "There is the story about Alf Robens coming in aeroplane • LO harangue the men at a pit about absenteeism: You're supposed to work five shifts a week—why on earth do you on v work nour ne rmce on a mme well?' Miner: Because I cant live on three unats wiat Kes is aDout And that's why Rank don't like it.
Tom Stenaug Alice's Restaurant, after being a very successful record, has now become very successful film. And it is easy to see why. Il expresses a lyrical, sometimes very confusion and scepticism about the contemporary USA. It combines both old and new aspeCis Of American culture: Alice's Restaurant is "half a mile from the railroad DOL track" and a sanctuary for addicts, dropouts and homeless kids.
Arlo Guthrie visiting his dying father Woodie personifies the specifically American cultural mix that defines the film. He is hostile to straight Americato the war, the police and short hair.
one inane toothy grin. After falling out with the local cop, Officer Obie, he then befriends him and has him act himself in He could hardly have done that if he'd been black. He is at once typ ical of sportuneous Hostilit to hi ociety and able to contain it with a fev jokes. It is not for nothing that he was hailed by Newsweek as "bridging the generation gap".
Alice herself runs the restaurant and moner ner Hock on toron over work, and throughout the film there is a tension between the idvilic world of mos! of the Restaurant clientele and the fac hat Alice is worked to the bone. Neithe her unbelievably thuggish and stupid lover Ray, nor the facile Arlo, can cook. All they can do is "have anything they want, and talk any rubbish they want while Alice works away.
The inner truth of the film has been clearly shown by the real sequel to it. While it was being shot the real Alice was divorcing the real Ray Restaurants. a commercial chain of "Alices Arlo Guthrie himself lives motto "I create my own world. what he does. His world is intantile CODEVION where America's childre about what's outside tis wo through this Alice herself is nor are
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