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Joan's language was absolutely gratuitous. But unfortunately, that's what she said and how she said it. If someone asked her to make her point without those words, yes, I think it could be easily done.

But no one did and dealing with this *after* the fact just doesn't work. The bleeping got to be so intrusive I could barely tell what she was saying - three or four in a sentence.

As for Allen's comment on her singing - actually, I'm not a very big fan of Baez, but the stuff in the film was *more* appealing to me than what was in my memory and made me want to dig out what I've got and buy more!

Mike

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Mike - didn't know you had moved - I should have guessed from your recent thing with Krin about Miles -

just want to add something here - I taped and am halfway through part two - I found, in particular, Dylan's remarks to the Emergency Civil Liberties Union repugnant, and reflective of what a jerk he could be - the ECLU was an organization formed to fight McCarthyism during the 1950s when the ACLU backed down and chickened out - it was formed by people who put their entire livelihoods on the line to stand up to McCarthy - to make it seem like they were using Dylan or wanted to control him speaks to the ignorance of his whole hipster ethos - these were people who risked more than he (or Ginsberg or Rutolo) ever risked, and to reduce them to a bunch of guys losing their hair bespeaks an ignorance that is beneath contempt -

also, one major problem with this doc, and maybe it'll change in that last hour - where the hell is Phil Ochs in all this? They talk about protest and a generation and never mention the man (except once, and only peripherally) who was probably the greatest topical songwriter ever?

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