In Quixote, a beautiful, haunting film, Baillie's antihero, a spaceman, flees the TV world and the last frontier to journey across the United States. He encounters a wasteland produced by the technological age, forgotten and despairing men and women, a nation at war with itself. Like the original Quixote, our cut-out hero isn't equipped to fight the evils he finds. Yet for Baillie a future is still possible; it must be sought outside the mainstream ideology. The Great Blondino refers to Blondin, a daring nineteenth-century tightrope artist who crossed Niagara Falls with a wheelbarrow. With a wave of a magic wand, our Blondino is TV's white knight transplanted to the sixties-a "misfit out of step" who is haunted by dreams but whose feats are primarily on the ground. Like Quixote's spaceman, he is a seeker, but at a loss in his quest for values. Viewed today, both figures appear as representations of man in modern American society, fleeing, burdened with the role of conqueror without the belief in it. -Kathy Geritz