--- In a_film_by@yahoogroups.com, jl <jlinds@a...> wrote:
> Has anyone seen this movie? I love the book but can't seem to track this=

> one down (the VHS is apparently rare and goes for around $60). The book =
is
> about the author's personal involvement with the Columbia U. riots in the=

> late 60s, among other things...on my paperback (1970), the copy reads, "S=
oon
> a New Kind of Movie From MGM!"


Saw it back when -- my recollection is dim, but I'd have thought 60 cents m=
ight be more like it... Andrew Sarris' review, evoking something of the pol=
itics of the day, is collected in his "The Primal Screen," and recalls what =
could have been part of the problem: the film is not set at Columbia, but "=
in some anonymous institution in the San Francisco Bay area [...] The book =
makes no sense apart from the uniquely incestuous power relationships at Col=
umbia University and throughout Manhattan Island..."