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...formidable, sharing Pearlstein's plain speech and relentless grip. Your Kindness is an idiosyncratic companion piece to David's famous Death of Marat, with Leslie's wife Constance West dressed as Charlotte Corday and holding the letter that got her access to Marat's bathroom. It is an exhilarating picture, with its firm amplitude of shapes and stripes. Leslie thinks of his work in partly ethical terms. "I think," he reflects, "it was Balzac who said that when art begins to decay it is always realism that comes to the rescue. This is why we must...
...would never make another film rather than work with Preminger again. I don't think he could direct his little nephew to the bathroom." To which Preminger replies with a ferocious gleam: "Imagine how good her performance will be in her next film if her performance in this one was so brilliant with a bad director." He adds: "I didn't hire her to praise me; I hired her to give a good performance. And she did." Her next film, to be released in the U.S. in February: The Burglars, in which, to top her list of easy...
...what was billed as an environmental theater baptism service. Inside, they were led into a dark room. Fixed to the walls were the haunting images of the '60s: photos of the Kennedy brothers and Martin Luther King, front pages with dread black headlines. Further on, in an open bathroom, a young man in a towel was shaving, singing We Shall Overcome. Hippiesque youngsters extended open hands with greetings of "love." The worshipers got a surprise along with the handshake: a palmful...
...plumbing but it refused to be replaced. The man got in a fight with the poetry but the poetry of Michael McClure and Vladimir Mayakovsky threw him down the stairs. Then he moved to the San Francisco "Y" where he now spends more time in the bathroom than anyone else...
...Questioner and answerer resolve themselves into two halves of the Bemused Reader, who finds himself in the bathroom-where Rogin's characters seem to spend a good deal of time -staring into the mirror and mouthing the same word over and over again until it empties of meaning: "Velleity. Velleity. Velleity...