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A radical I know lost Faith when he read that Mao Tse-Tung liked Richard Nixon and blamed his resignation on the fact that there is too much political freedom in the U.S. But my radical friend probably just envies Mao. He comes from a bourgeois family.
NICHOLS has never attempted a movie like The Fortune, and it spoils a beautiful record. The Graduate, Catch 22, and Carnal Knowledge were based on real and depressing subject matter from which Nichols shaped a lot of very funny scenes. The relationship of humor to unhappy truth was accurate. If...
Svengalis and Status. All American artists, Wolfe argues, are Trilbys. For the past 30 years they have been hypnotized by three powerful critics named Harold Rosenberg, Clement Greenberg and Leo Steinberg. These Svengalis have dictated what shall be painted and sculpted. From abstract expressionism onward, American art has been made...
She is far more the daughter of her father Prince Rainier III of Monaco than of Grace Kelly of Philadelphia and Hollywood; the immigrant Kellys' struggle for social acceptance is beyond her ken. She can chaff the prostitutes that line Avenue Foch outside her parents' Paris apartment and...
In the same vein. Michel has painful difficulty marketing his film--his coarse and obese producer, between puts on a cheap cigar, urges him to spice it up with a few deaths, since no one is interested in live Jews these days. Returning from his interview at the studio. Michel...