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Newspaper
Bennington Banner
Location
Bennington, Vermont, United States of America
Date
May 08, 1975
Page
9
Frank Sweatlow critiques 1970s television news for prioritizing entertainment over reporting. He criticizes anchor banter, sensational formats, and news personalities over solid reportage, warning that ratings obsession degrades journalism.
Berkshire Ballet closes its season May 10 and 11 with guest artists from the Boston Ballet. Performances at Taconic High School Pittsfield and Monument Mountain Regional High School Great Barrington include premieres such as Lyric Offering and An Wasser Flussen Babylon with works by Patrelle Thomas and Balanchine inspired pieces. Mary Margaret Giannone choreographs and Patricia Ochs, Judy Belot Drozd, Darrell Fees and Janine Duffin are featured as soloists. Tickets available at the door and local outlets with student discounts.
The Northern Berkshire Council of the Arts hosts Martha Gandy Fales for a 11 a.m. lecture at the Clark Art Institute on May 13. Fales, president of the Brick Store Museum, charts From Revere to Tiffany and outlines her career with Winterthur and Essex Institute. Tickets are sold at Renzi's College Bookstore Lambs Stationery NBCA and Clark.
A 30 minute color film on mounting a major art exhibition directed by Andrew Ritchie and featuring works from private collections by Picasso Rembrandt Renoir Gauguin Tintoretto Leger Degas and El Greco will be shown at 2 p.m. in the Sterling and Francine Clark Institute auditorium. Also on the program A Future for the Past a conservation film detailing restoration of an 18th century portrait by Sheldon Keck will be shown. Both screenings are free.
CBS movie Generation stars David Janssen and Kim Darby as a town tale unfolds with baby plans partly outside hospital. A two hour Bennington cable program filmed by Goddard College students Duncan Urquart and Talmadge Mayo airs Friday 7 to 9 pm. Studio phone line will accept viewer calls during the show.
Four barbershop singers from the Massa chusetts group perform weekly in 700 plus North American cities. The Boston Common Quartet sings Bring back Those Good Old Days and a Cohan medley at Rockefeller Center. SPEBSQSA Inc mentors 36000 members in 740 cities with a 90 minute Salute to America set to premiere in January at the Kennedy Center.
The year 1933 saw repeal of liquor laws and Ulysses publication restrictions. Joseph Strick’s Ulysses film is praised for its faith to Joyce, with an X rating deemed undeserved. Nickelodeon Williamstown features The Prisoner of Second Avenue with Lemmon and Bancroft. Main Street Bennington shows Shampoo in PG, and Twin Cinemas runs The Great Waldo Pepper and Shampoo at Cinema II. Godfather Part II dominates Oscars at Manchester listings, with Pacino and others reprising roles. Cabaret plays at Sheraton North Adams, rated R, noted for its 1973 Best Picture near-miss.
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