Said Surfed in the comments to the previous post. And I knew exactly what he meant: "The Strawberry Statement"!
"The vibrations were good, but the times were bad."
The film came out in 1970, but it depicts the protests that took place at Columbia University in 1968.
ADDED: Maybe someone could make a movie about the Wisconsin protests of 2011 and call it "The Sandwich Manifesto." The protest scenes here were very similar to some of the scenes in that trailer, and — as noted earlier this morning — Scott Walker has made sandwiches his trademark.
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Far out...
The Port Huron Blueberry stole the Best Picture oscar that year.
Did you think the only Kim Darby movie ever was "True Grit"?
No tear gas wafting through the galleries of the Wisconsin capitol building. In fact, from the front line reporting of you and Meade, it seems the police were acquiescing to the protesters in Madison's Days of Rage. The police already had the daisy in the barrel.
...and they were turning into butterflies.
"A protester who assumes Meade is a typical protester tells Meade that the police are 'on our side.' That is, the protesters seem to be colluding with the police in the access restriction, which seems to be why they are waiting in line."
So that really is Kim Darby? Didn't see the movie and I thought it must be a Kim Darby lookalike.
Soundtrack for "The Strawberry Statement" (lots of which is in that trailer): "The Circle Game - Buffy Sainte-Marie; Our House - Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young; Market Basket; Down By The River - Neil Young; Long Time Gone - Crosby, Stills and Nash; Cyclatron; Something In The Air - Thunderclap Newman; Also Sprach Zarathustra - Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra; The Loner - Neil Young; Coit Tower; Fishin' Blues - Red Mountain Jug Band; Concerto in D Minor - Ian Freebairn-Smith; Helpless - Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young; Pocket Band; Give Peace A Chance - Cast"
And here's the book the movie was based on: "The Strawberry Statement: Notes of a College Revolutionary."
I bet Hillary and Bill saw that movie together.
"The Strawberry Lube Statement."
Link goes through the Althouse Portal. No lube required for that.
I am Laslo.
@Laslo I clicked on that... some of the other products you might like are really... I don't know... sad or funny.
I realize that I never saw "The Strawberry Statement," that we knew it to be "Love Story"-type bullshit without seeing it... Hollywood trading on the youth movement.
But I'm mixing it up with some other movie with maybe a similar title from that same time that was perhaps about a journalist wandering around filming protests and getting involved. Something I did see. What could it have been?
I'm trying to google movies about journalists in the 1970s and not getting to it. Journalism has been a popular topic for movies over the years. Each decade, it seems, has its own special journalism movies....
Who remembers “The Kumquat Statement: Anarchy in the Groves of Academe,” a 1970 look at UC Berkeley and the New Left by John R. Coyne?
Whatever happened to...
James Simon Kunen...attended Columbia University during the 1968 student protests and participated in the student sit-in at the institution's Hamilton Hall, resulting in his arrest for trespassing. This experience led him to write The Strawberry Statement, documenting the university's controversial involvement with the government's Institute for Defense Analyses.
After graduating from Columbia, he became a field journalist from Vietnam for TRUE magazine. This experience led to his second published work, Standard Operating Procedure.
Afterward, he graduated from the New York University School of Law and moved to Washington, D.C., where he became a public defender. His experiences in criminal courts led to his writing "How Can You Defend Those People?", which was published by Random House in 1983.
After leaving the Public Defender Service in Washington, Kunen worked as an editorial page editor at Newsday on Long Island before joining PEOPLE magazine as a writer and editor. His coverage for PEOPLE of the nation's worst drunk driving crash spurred him to write his fourth book, Reckless Disregard: Corporate Greed, Government Indifference and the Kentucky School Bus Crash.
Kunen has also written articles for The New Yorker, People, Newsday, and New York Times Magazine, among other notable publications.
After losing employment with Time Warner as Director of Communications, after working with them for two decades, he wrote a book called "Diary of a Company Man: Losing a Job: Finding Life," published in January 2012.
"For the People!" PEOPLE magazine, I guess
"Something I did see. What could it have been? "
"Medium Cool"
I am Laslo.
"But I'm mixing it up with some other movie with maybe a similar title from that same time that was perhaps about a journalist wandering around filming protests and getting involved. Something I did see. What could it have been?"
Could that have been Haskel Wexler's MEDIUM COOL?
In college, I was raped by a female protester at a "Take Back the Night" evening rally.
Not much to add, really: it was dark, and she sucked my cock. Against my will.
I do not hold this against all female protesters who act out for women's safety, just the ones who have sucked my cock. Against my will.
I am Laslo.
Thank you, Laslo!
Yes. It was "Medium Cool."
"Who remembers “The Kumquat Statement: Anarchy in the Groves of Academe,” a 1970 look at UC Berkeley and the New Left by John R. Coyne?"
Whoa! LOL. I thought this was a comic riff and was going to suggest that we generate fruit-based book titles for all the universities.
Filmed in '68 but with a 1970 soundtrack. I quibble.
"Medium Cool is a 1969 American drama film written and directed by Haskell Wexler and starring Robert Forster, Verna Bloom, Peter Bonerz, Marianna Hill and Harold Blankenship. It takes place in Chicago in the summer of 1968. It was notable for Wexler's use of cinéma vérité-style documentary filmmaking techniques, as well as for combining fictional and non-fictional content. In 2003, the film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being 'culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant.'"
That's obviously a much better movie. Here's the trailer. That's one that we recognized at the time as important and necessary to see. I saw it. I performed my duty.
"Filmed in '68 but with a 1970 soundtrack. I quibble."
Yeah, but those songs were about 1968. When did Neil Young shoot his baby down by the river? When were Joni and Graham happy with 2 cats in the yard?
"In college, I was raped by a female protester at a "Take Back the Night" evening rally."
The truly difficult part of this event was that no one believed me.
I went to the college authorities, but they just filed a piece of paper and that was it.
Although, in their defense, all I could accurately describe was the top of her head.
I am Laslo.
I mean, what could I do? She eagerly swallowed the evidence.
I am Laslo.
I suppose the police could've swabbed my penis to see if her lips left any DNA, but I probably corrupted the evidence by masturbating furiously when I got home.
I am Laslo.
Sometimes I still dream about that night and wake up with a feeling of terror.
Well, a feeling of terror and an erection.
I am Laslo.
I remember the soundtrack being in the cutout bins at Korvettes and Harmony Hut for years, about ten minutes after the movie was released. Also the soundtracks for Adam at 6 AM and The Magic Christian. And Zachariah, "The First Electric Western." 49 cents. I think they all had "Something in the Air" by Thunderclap Newman at the last song on side two.
"She eagerly swallowed the evidence."
Just think how history might be different if Monica had done so.
Selfish bit*h !
We demand more bread, man!
I realize that I never saw "The Strawberry Statement," that we knew it to be "Love Story"-type bullshit without seeing it... Hollywood trading on the youth movement.
I never saw the movie either, but the book is actually pretty good.
I think that film trailer does more to summarize the absolute idiocies / self-delusions / self-absorption of the late 60s Left than anything else I've seen. (I lived through those years, though I didn't hit campus until the early 70s.)
Revolution is the most presumptuous form of white privilege. Let's hope that we can someday create a world that is worthy of the ideals of Ivy League undergraduates.
"Stand Up And Be Counted" 1972 with Stella Stevens,Jacqueline Bisset,Lee Purcell,Loretta Swit,Joyce Brothers,Meredith Baxter,Steve Lawrence,M ichael Ansara,Hector Elizondo,and Gary Lockwood.Explored early feminist activism
Introduced Helen Reddy's "I Am Woman"
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