Word: countesses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...like a picaresque fairy tale, though too sardonic and materialistic to be an actual fairy tale, and too dreamy and slow-moving to be truly picaresque. Barry is tricked into enlisting, deserts, impersonates an officer, is caught, joins a card-sharping fellow-Irishman and finally marries the enigmatic Countess of Lyndon, a wealthy, beautiful English aristocrat...
...recalled her difficulties with 18th century plumbing in Stanley Kubrick's new film Barry Lyndon. The movie, based on William Thackeray's novel The Luck of Barry Lyndon, features Ryan O'Neal as a young Irish rogue looking for wealth and Marisa as the countess who supplies it by marrying him. The bathtub, where she goes to brood after catching Ryan flirting with another girl, proved to be as annoying as it was authentic. "They had to keep rilling it with hot water. And since there was no plug, they had a lot of pipes carrying water...
Thereafter, the audience sees the composer as lunatic victim: in one scene he climbs into a huge piano with a wrathful countess; in another he flies over Germany on a bombing mission. His crew: a bevy of ex-mistresses. Liszt ends as he begins, Candide with piano, an innocent exploited by everyone he encounters, especially Wagner (who became his son-in-law). Lest the audience wonder about the personality of Wagner, the film transforms him into Dracula, literally sucking the blood of his first patron, then into Dr. Frankenstein, sole creator of a monster named Hitler...
...twice coincided with the tortuous path of Russell, whose wide-screen fantasies appear excessive even against the standards of the rock world. In Tommy, Daltrey was imprisoned in an Iron Maiden constructed out of hypodermic needles. Lisztomania begins with Roger frenetically kissing the breasts of the Countess Marie in time to an amuck metronome, a scene that the star remembers vividly. "It was the first day on the set, and no one knew anybody else. Ken yelled, 'O.K., Roger, take off your clothes, get in bed and have an orgasm...
...seems that the countess is especially eager to use the apartments for a handy place to stash her ambisexual boy friend Konrad (Helmut Berger...