Word: cocteau
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...play achieve an astonishingly tender tension between sickness and sweetness. The boy (Michael Warren Powell) and girl (Joanna Miles) live in a fantasy playroom of imaginary companions and real toys, such as a miniature Ferris wheel. The atmosphere has a suffocating intimacy, an airless immunity to reality that recalls Cocteau's Les Enfants Terribles, with its similarly incestuous relationship. Reality finally intrudes with cruel pathos as the girl's birth pangs become her death throes...
Moreau stayed in The Dazzling Hour for two years, then moved on to other shows-Cocteau's La Machine Infernale (in which she appeared with her hair dusted with silver powder, her hands in clawed gloves, and her body covered with a flesh-colored net) and, for two years, Shaw's Pygmalion. She had already begun taking parts in small films, shooting all day, then racing to the theater for the show at night. The word was that Moreau was completely unphotogenic-the nose and ears too small, the mouth too thick, the body nothing special...
Almost instantly she revealed her gen ius for attracting mates and mentors, occasionally overlapping. In London, it was Herbert Read who made out her shopping list. In Paris, it was Marcel Duchamp who galloped her around the studios, introducing her to such greats as Arp, Kandinsky and Jean Cocteau, while Peggy made good her resolve "to buy a painting a day." Dynamite Chronicle. Their advice proved good. When Peggy fled from Vichy France in 1941 for New York, she went encumbered with her future husband, Surrealist Max Ernst, her ex-husband, Laurence Vail, and art that had cost her only...
...circus. Barnum & Bailey was so pleased that it gave him a free entrance pass. He followed the American artists' trail to Paris, where he made his own toy circus in which he sat performing like some child Gargantua for such luminaries as Fernand Leger, Joan Miro, and Jean Cocteau...
...courtship of Franchise, Picasso didn't show her his etchings-he showed her how to etch. Since she was a full 40 years younger than he, she had to pass acid-test encounters with Gertrude Stein, Braque, Matisse, Cocteau, and a dozen other greats before she could share his life. Yet, judging from her memoirs, crammed with incredible recall, she was a cool creature who passed the tests but, instead of sharing his life, only came to understand...