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LA Weekly Review
By Holly Willis
Any red-blooded, TV-watching American alive in the 1970s knows about the Crazy Straw, the Veg-a-matic and a host of other arcane, must-have gadgets hawked in hyperbolic 60-second spots by what?s known in the biz as "pitch people." While Ron Popiel may be the most notorious among these TV hucksters, he?s only one of nearly a dozen people featured in Stanley Jacobs? fascinating, if long, documentary examining the history of the pitch and its practitioners. Archival footage shows early silver-tongued salesmen peddling their wares throughout rural America...
LA Weekly Review
By Paul Malcolm
The community explored in Pitch People is... fascinating for being obsure out in the open. Director Stanley Jacobs takes us behind the scenes of infomercials, TV mail-order ads and product fairs to introduce us to the men and women charged with separating fools from their money. A vertable who's who of hucksterism...
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