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...Rosanna ultimately dies in a convent, post partum and penitent, paying dearly for what began as just another portrait sitting. After a brush with a heretic-hunting cardinal (Mario Feliciani) of the Spanish Inquisition, Mel goes quietly to pieces and spends the brief epilogue in an asylum, where demented models presumably inspire his oddly elongated, mystical portraits of the saints...
Talkative Caller. As far as official records show, the murderer has never been caught. But unaccountably, at the beginning of 1964, the brutal crimes stopped. Then, about a year later, cautiously worded news stories suggested that the Strangler was lodged in Bridgewater State Hospital, a maximum-security asylum...
These are some of the inmates of the asylum at Charenton, a progressive booby-bin that housed sex criminals and lunatics in post-Revolutionary France, and sheltered the Marquis de Sade for the last distracted years of his life. Sade was no more popular with the Comstocks of the Napoleonic era than he had been with the Bourbons' cheka; both regimes jailed him for the same apolitical crimes. But Charenton's enlightened director M. Coulmier encouraged him to write and direct plays for the inmates, and Charenton became a sort of high camp Vauxhall for the Parisian upper crust...
...Theater Company of Boston's interpretation of The Persecution and Assassination of Marat as Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum at Charenton under the Direction of the Marquis de Sade (abbreviated Marat/Sade) owes much to the scheme of those who created it (abbreviate Weiss/Brook). Sired by Brecht, Artaud, Genet and Pirandello, conceived by the German filmmaker and novelist Peter Weiss, translated by Geoffrey Skelton, set to music by R. C. Peaslee, and delivered in London and New York by the Royal Shakespeare Company's Peter Brook, the play is not one man's play open to interpretation by other...
Jeanie died in an insane asylum in 1929. Robbie, infected with a tendency to explosive furies-which, as Thompson says, were much like his father's-and with what Frost himself called "my Indian vindictiveness," found survival in poetry. His poems became "tools or weapons for actually trying to resolve those conflicts within himself, or between himself and others, which he viewed as being so dangerous that they might otherwise engulf...