Documentaries (was Re: Jazz)

Michael Pugliese debsian at pacbell.net
Fri Jan 19 10:21:42 PST 2001


Anyone mention Emile deAntonio or Haskell Wexler? Forget the name of the former's documentary (mostly interviews with Bernadine Dohrn and Billy Ayers, etc. while underground) on the WU. Saw it once, back in the late 70's in a natural food co-op in Santa Monica. During the Q & A afterwards the friend I went with and I were peppered with a heavy handed lecture on political prisoners, armed struggle and such. I made clear that we from a reformist org, the Students for Economic Democracy (student org. of Tom Hayden's Campaign for Econ.Demo.) and their arguments were far from convincing. One partial irony was that Jane Fonda was one of the supporters of Emile deAntionio against a suit brought by the Feds to get all outakes from the filming of the documentary on the Weatherman. Most of the Hollywood Left did the same. The Feds lost the case.

Michael Pugliese, who does need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows...



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