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...praises with faint damns a pamphlet composed by the painter James McNeill Whistler, who "writes in an offhand, colloquial style, much besprinkled with French--a style which might be called familiar if one often encountered anything like it." Holding at arm's length a novel by Louisa May Alcott (Eight Cousins: or, the Aunt-Hill), he mentions the opinion of some foreigners that American children are ill- behaved: "If this is so, the philosophic mind desires to know the reason of it, and when in the course of its enquiry the philosophic mind encounters the tales of Miss Alcott...
Last night Walt Whitman had the strangest dream. There he was, staring out his bedroom window, when who should hop in but Huck Finn, itching to travel. "Dress warmly," Walt's dead mom told him. And we're off to see Louisa May Alcott, who's having an affair with a Tahitian prince. Over there's Charlotte Cushman, the noted actress, playing Hamlet to Emily Dickinson's Ophelia; they become co-stars and lovers. Old Ralph Waldo Emerson is having a chat with the dead Henry David Thoreau: "Sex can be messy...
...does pitiful Petrie get much help from his technical staff. John Alcott is a talented cinematographer, but, as Stanley Kubrick's favorite collaborator. Alcott has shown that he specializes in creating eerily sunny dream worlds where harsh lights and bright colors take on a chilling unreality. Alcott's style couldn't be more wrong for the South Bronx. When he does try to capture the ugliness of the locale, his photography becomes more grainy than gritty. And then, there's Rita Roland, from the Lizzie Borden School of Film Editing. Many times, she cuts away from a scene with...
...horror movies are of paper-plate disposability, piled high with ground round and too much ketchup. But class will tell, and Curtis has worked with the men at the head of the scare-picture class: John Carpenter, who directed her in both Halloween and The Fog, and Cinematographer John Alcott, who makes this toy locomotive of a film look as sleek and eerie as the ghost of the Twentieth Century Limited. Curtis brings her own class to the genre, though one wonders where her career will lead her next. Into an ominous shower stall? Like mother, like daughter, bless...
...literary currents and political conflicts in Hawthorne's day, yet he rarely makes any attempt to place Hawthorne in their midst. He offers no interpretation of Hawthorne's relationship to the Transcendentalists, only observing that "the politics of Concord, transcendental or otherwise, were never to Hawthorne's liking." Bronson Alcott, one of the most famous of the transcendental teachers, lived down the street from Hawthorne's home in Concord; yet the most telling detail that Mellow discloses about the relationship between the two men is that Hawthorne's wife helped Alcott's daughter to mark her clothes with indelible...