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...Post-Mark of Cain...
...central distortion was that the enslaved man was not a man; he was the opposite of a man, whatever that might be. His very color was a sign of deviation, a sign to be carried by generations after him, like the mark of Cain. There are a dozen scenes in black American novels where a child is going along happily until someone (often a schoolteacher) points out the "difference" in his life, which is also the difference of his future. At that revelation the child flees in panic to a mirror in order to stare at himself, to see himself...
...East of Eden, there can be no such hope. Twelve years after his death, Steinbeck's reputation grazes in the pasture of celebrated oblivion inhabited by many literary Nobel laureates. But his recasting of the Cain and Abel story in turn-of-the-century California deserves better than the ABC version, and indeed it got it in a 1955 film that starred Raymond Massey as steel-spined Adam Trask and James Dean as Cal, his loving renegade...
Shepard is most rewarding when he transforms his special war into myth. In his latest play, True West, he reworks the ancient tale of Cain and Abel. In the course of the drama, two brothers exchange identities, summoning up Baudelaire's line, "Mon semblable-mon frère!" or put somewhat differently: Am I my brother's murderer...
...score, is Blondie's lead guitarist; Pat Benatar, in a featured role, has an album of her own. And Union City is faithful to the tones and undertones of film noir, that postwar style of moviemaking that transposed Raymond Chandler's mean-streets prose and James M. Cain's haunted losers to celluloid. Electric blue and neon orange infiltrate the Venetian blinds as Harlan, obsessed with finding the person who has been drinking from the milk bottles outside his door, strikes the culprit with a blow hard enough to kill and then hides the body...