Word: creators
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...content with making movies, Fellini seems determined to create a whole new world along with each new film--not a distorted reproduction of some world that is or has been, but a fresh-from-the-forehead-of-the-creator god world with its own pleasures, values and idiosyncracies. At first, Fellini seemed to be creating the same world over and over again; lately he appears to be wandering around, establishing new earths in whatever image strikes his fancy. There are a few things common to them all, though; a Fellini world is one where the fantastic is commonplace and madness...
...that line, he gave the show away. For Benny was never a great creator. Even on TV his gift was that of an actor who wraps himself in other people's material. His props were inflections, pauses and reactions. In his mouth, "Well!" could express a thesaurus of repartee; a Benny "Yipe!" could wring laughter from a stone. Benny might have enjoyed a film career as durable as Bob Hope's. As the Polish ham in Ernst Lubitsch's wartime comedy, To Be or Not to Be, the comedian gave one of the screen's classic...
Died. Harry Hershfield, 89, perennial master of ceremonies, raconteur, columnist and cartoonist; in Manhattan. Hershfield first exercised his wit as the cartoonist-creator of the Desperate Desmond and Abie the Agent comic strips. In the 1940s he gained a wide following as one of the three gagmen who tried to tell funnier stories than the radio audience of Can You Top This? A leading light on the "rubber chicken circuit" for more than 50 years, Hershfield was famous for such sententiae as: "A conscience cannot prevent sin. It only prevents you from enjoying...
...West, this might be known as the Year of Sherlock Holmes. He is on the bestseller lists in a novel entitled The Seven-Per-Cent Solution, in which Sigmund Freud allies himself with Holmes, sharing, among other things, a mutual addiction to cocaine. Books about Holmes and his creator Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, already formidable in number, are proliferating with the breeding speed of the fruit fly. One Manhattan bookstore has an entire window display devoted solely to these works. There is only one James Joyce Society, but in the U.S. alone there are four official groups of ardent Sherlock...
...exactly like awning cloth and hang them anonymously in public places. "Form, art's quest throughout the centuries," writes Buren, 36, "becomes a matter of no interest, superfluous and anachronistic. Of course then art is bound to disappear . . . Creating, producing, is henceforth of only relative interest, and the creator, the producer, no longer has any reason to glorify 'his' product...