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50 Harv. L. Rec. 1 (1970)

handle is hein.journals/hlrec50 and id is 1 raw text is: HARVARD LAW RECORD VOL. 50 NO. 1 JANUARY 29, 1970 TWENTY CENTS Students Flock to Film Preview By Bob Hernandez One thousand Harvard Law students and faculty spent Mon- day night at the movies last week, as guests of Paramount Pictures for a preview of The Lawyer at the Harvard Square Theater. During a panel discussion fol- lowing the showing, the director of the film walked out, confounded by the Harvard hiss and crit- icism of the film by members of the audience. The Lawyer, based on the Sam Shepard trial which brought F. Lee Bailey to national prom- IMovie Review: 'The Lawyer' If You've Seen One Perry Mason By Linda Standridge If you've seen Perry Mason, then you've seen The Law- yer. Mildly entertaining, but definitely neither profound nor unique. The plot revolves around a Harvard-educated lawyer prac- ticing in a small western town. He screeches around in a beat- up camper, breaks all traffic laws, and ardently pursues a career of defending drunks. One day, however, a case comes his way concerning a doctor who is accused of killing his wife. This creates the typically small-town reaction: moral out- rage which presumes guilt be- fore trial (despite the state's case being based purely on cir- cumstantial evidence - which is not even very strong). Barry Newman, as the law- yer, does an excellent acting job with his style and his an- tics. He is a somewhat arro- gant man placed among hicks; but an arrogant man with a (Continued on Page 15) inence, cast Barry Newman in the title role. Like 95 per cent of the cast, Newman makes his film debut with this picture. Newman received a masters de- gree in anthropology from Bran- deis. He has had roles in half a dozen Broadway plays and was a two-and-a-half year member of The Edge of Night television series. In The Lawyer he plays a Dus- tin Hoffman-type anti-hero, re- cently graduated from Harvard Law and trying to make it somewhere in the southwest. Cocky, a compulsive speeder, he is an aggressive lawyer with a strong sense of justice and good sense of humor. He is The Grad- uote now grown up, facing the real world of assault, sex crimes, and murder. Following the screening for the world's toughest audience, Newman joined F. Lee Bailey, di- rector Sidney J. Furie, producer Brad Dexter, and Boston Univer- sity Professor Robert Steele to Continued on Page 13) Black Law Students Face Disciplinary Decision The Law School has been asked to discipline black law students in- volved in December's demonstra- tions against Harvard University employment practices, according to reliable sources. The faculty has reached no de- cision yet as to whether the Law School should handle the matter - rather than a special Univer- sity-wide body - and, if it does, whether normal or special pro- cedures should be used, the same sources said. Professor James Vorenberg, chairman of the Administrative Board, which would normally han- dle serious Law School discipli- nary matters, told the REcoRD that any discussion of the situa- tion by him would be inappro- priate because the matter is still pending. Black students who might be subject to possible disciplinary measures could not be reached for comment. Those students have reportedly received letters telling them that the Law School will handle any possible disciplinary measures against them. The controversy arose over what the Organization for Black Unity - OBU - called discrimi- natory hiring practices by the University. It culminated in an early-morning takeover of the Faculty Club by OBU members, and a day-long occupation.

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