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...Vice President (Lew Ayres), the victim of a recent stroke, lolls in his wheelchair like an unstrung marionette and proclaims his inability to take office. The torch is passed to Douglass Oilman (James Earl Jones), President Pro Ternpore of the Senate, prompting the Capitol's most prominent Dixiecrat (Burgess Meredith) to snort "the White House doesn't seem near white enough for me tonight...
...Clockwork Orange. Kubrick's biggest b.o. jackpot yet, and a mess. Gone is the Anthony Burgess wit, and the texture of the novel is brutally simplified by the loss of language and incidents. Poorly acted, except by Malcolm McDowell, and directed with leering touches. SACK 57: 10, 12:20, 2:40, 5, 7:30, 10. Sunday...
...Anthony Burgess (Bollonfine) Cape of Storms by John Gordon
...human society must assume certain risks. They need not include insanity, terrorism, murder. But they had better include the liberty of action. Total-in other words, totalitarian-security means, ultimately, the Astrodome made global. No weather, no shadows, no frustration, no delight, no true freedom. It is an Anthony Burgess vision made real, a film in which there is no fadeout. That vision is worth pondering the next time violence beckons in some chance and random spot...
...fiction is somewhat like the Socialist Party under Norman Thomas--it can create radically different ways of looking at things, it can reflect a part of the popular mind, but finally it will have accomplished the most by having its best ideas stolen by other, better manipulators. Hence, Anthony Burgess and Kubrick in the just barely future of A Clockwork Orange, and the imaginary but parallel worlds of Vladimir Nabokov...