4 4 a 4q~ 4 I w :44 -f - Page Eight THE DAILY MAGAZINE Supnday, November 22, 1970 Sunday, November 22, 1970 THE MICHIGAN DAILY I Who cares what the Times thinks about a movie now? Continued from Page 7 was young, bright, intense, a sharp, lucid writer - everything a paper would desire in a film critic, except for the fact that she had almost no experience reviewing films. The Times was willing to overlook that. After Iall, Crowther had 30 years' experience and where didthat get him when Bonnie and Clyde came along? But there was more. "There was at the time Renata was hired a desire to be kind of 'with it,' but nobody knew what being 'with it' in films meant," recalls Canby. "For as many years as the Times has been in existence critics were just created with- in the Times. Beginning with Clifton Dan- iel the paper started to upgrade critics in all fields. In earlier years you can bet that all of these jobs would have been filled by city side reporters who won them as sine- cures of one sort or another." Adler's specialty was n e w burgeoning culture (What's newer or more pop than movies?) and in some ways she was a quite unexpected example of the 'new,' knocking down the shibboleths with impatient naiv- iete. Canby said he disagreed with her "90 per cent of the time, but she brought a lev- el of intelligence to bear on films the likes of which no newspaper in this city has ever had. She would write a review that absolute- ly refused to tell you to rush out or to stay home." Greenspun is more effusive. "She was, I think, the best thing that ever happened to the Times because she broke the back of the whole Bosley Crowther thing. She wrote sort of wild prose which they labored over, I know. That's good. To force them to deal with prose that is not by their standards ef- ficient, is a very useful thing. What she did more than anything else was to move the movie department of the Times into the last half of the twentieth century, which it had certainly never been in before. "Also, she had a sort of blithe disregard for a number of sacred cows," says Green- spun. "I don't fully approve of this; she really knew too little. They had no right hiring someone like Renata Adler for that job, and, I suppose you could say she had no right accepting. By no means a typical, stu- pid Times' move. To take someone who has written elsewhere and doesn't know any- thing about movies or has any particular competence in film, and put her' into the top slot of the movie department, is a very special kind of insanity. That it worked as well as it did was sort of pure luck." Nor was the film industry especially en- chanted by this intellectual pixie; their ca- terwauls echoed throughout New York. She Continued on Page 20 Frank grosses $5,000 a week in heroin sales. There are 700 other deal ers. field area, Frank is a chief- tain. Frank is also a father who worries about four children. His wife is in the Detroit House of Correction for pass- ing a bad check. "Look here," Frank told me. "I'm getting enough mo n ey together to buy me a car and a house in the suburbs. I'm gonna be all set when the old lady gets out of jail." Frank was mad about the FBI raid of the previous day, mad because he had to wait an eternal 10 hours to get his ownI DO YOU WANT GOOD SERR OR GOOD WOI YOU CAN HAVE BOTH GOLD BOND CLI 332 MAYNARD AT THE TOWER PLAZA us. Dave told him. We stayed "do," mad because it was cost- quiet. ing him money and mad be- "Hey, I've got enough trou- cause it was going to cost him bles already. If you got the, so much time he had to post-' balls to do something to these pone his daughter's 13th cats, you go ahead but you get birthday party. outta here. I ain't your mom- His children go to s c h o 0 1 ma," Frank said. nearby and are usually smart- We left. "If I ever catch you ly dressed, classier than their cats trying to burn me again, classmates whose parents I ain't even gonna bother see- work in the factories or rely ing Frank," said Davis. "I'll on welfare. They know their just shoot you bastards in the father deals heroin and they back," he said, reaching into I are proud that he's the king his pocket and pulling out the of the neighborhood. knife. "Hell, you ain't even got Frank asked me if I had a piece, you nigger shit," Dar- time that weekend to take his ryl answered, y t kidsrollerskating, an offer On Thursday afternoon which put his stamp of ap- Darryl, Richmond and I met proval on me. Frank in the Canfield bar. In "Won't us going into busi- the heirarchy of the c r i m e ness hurt you?" I asked, a syndicate that smuggles the courtesy question because I heroin from France and Tur- already knew the answer. key to the United States, Frank explained that he was Frank is close to the bottom expanding his business to ac- of the pyramid. He grosses $5,- comodate the influx of subur- 000 a week in heroin sales in ban kids. But he didn't want a multi-billion dollar indus- to sell directly to the subur- try. Police figure there are 150 banites because he said the more dealers in Detroit j u s t police had warned h i m: like Frank and about 50 more ' "You'll stay cool as long as we that are bigger, and about 500 don't catch these young white more that are smaller. chicks going into your place. 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