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Jeffrey Ruoff, The Last Vaudevillian (Vaudeville Verite, 3203 SE Woodstock Blvd., Portland, OR 97202-8199), VHS, 30 minutes, $53.00 (Institutional), $23.00 (Individual).
This is a brief biographical video of John Holod, an independent travel filmmaker and lecturer who drives around the United States in an $80,000 motor home showing his films in retirement communities, civic clubs, and educational institutions. Ruoff, also an independent film maker and visiting professor in the Anthropology Department at Reed College, presents Holod as "the last vaudevillian," an entertainer who also serves as a cultural broker, an interpreter of foreign cultures to stay-at-home Americans.