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5 unusual facts about A New Leaf


A New Leaf

WGA Award (Screen) for Best Comedy Adapted from Another Medium (Elaine May) - lost to John Paxton for Kotch (1971)

Similar problems dogged her subsequent projects, Mikey and Nicky and Ishtar.

Alfred Hitchcock's Anthology – Volume 4

Also, within the 26 short stories is The Green Heart by Jack Ritchie which was made into the 1971 film A New Leaf.

New leaf

A New Leaf, a 1971 film written and directed by Elaine May

Warren H. Wagner

Apparently among modern phylogenetic systematists, Wagner is alone in having been mentioned in a Hollywood film (A New Leaf, starring Elaine May and Walter Matthau).



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Libertarian Marxism

Whereas the central Maoist leaders encouraged the masses to criticize reactionary "ideas" and "habits" among the alleged 5% of bad cadres, giving them a chance to "turn over a new leaf" after they had undergone "thought reform," the ultra-left argued that cultural revolution had to give way to political revolution "in which one class overthrows another class".