Clark Art Screens 'Bonnie and Clyde'

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WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — On Thursday, Dec. 5, the Clark Art Institute kicks off its ten-part New Hollywood Auteurs film series with a screening of "Bonnie and Clyde" (1967) at 6 pm in the Manton Research Center auditorium. 
 
Presented in partnership with Images Cinema, each film is introduced by a staff member of the Clark or Images.
 
According to a press release:
 
Half comic fairy tale, half brutal fact, "Bonnie and Clyde" is based upon the Barrow Gang that terrorized the South in the 1930s. Part of the changing of the guard in Hollywood, the film ushered in an era of violent and sexually liberated film making. Although Truffaut’s style was a primary influence, it reclaimed the American gangster movie from the nouvelle vague. Reflecting both folk legend and the affinity of the antiwar generation for outlaws, Bonnie and Clyde has a glee then so new, now so imitated. 
 
Free. Accessible seats available; for information, call 413 458 0524. Images Cinema has received funding support from the Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation's Arts Build Community grant to co-present/co-produce this series. 

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Williamstown Health Board Considers Local Rule on 'Flavored' Tobacco

By Stephen DravisiBerkshires Staff
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The Board of Health on Monday heard a suggestion that the town code be updated to allow the local authority to bar the sale of items that run afoul of the commonwealth's prohibition of flavored tobacco products.
 
Jim Wilusz of the Lee-based Tri-Town Health Department met with the board via Zoom during its monthly meeting.
 
Wilusz runs a Tobacco Awareness Program that serves 12 Berkshire County towns plus the cities of North Adams and Pittsfield.
 
He explained that in June, the Massachusetts Department of Public Health determined that five products labeled "non-menthol" in order to make them salable in the commonwealth in fact met the state's definition of "flavored." And the state agency instituted a ban.
 
The problem, Wilusz said, is that the state likely will not be able to keep up with the ever-evolving marketing efforts of the tobacco industry as it tries to market its products to new users.
 
"DPH is not going to keep coming out with these letters next year and the year after and the year after that," Wilusz said.
 
"[Big tobacco] spends billions in marketing and developing new products."
 
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