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...U.C.L.A. ("I wanted to be Brenda Starr") when, as part of a course in playwriting, she was required to take part in a college show. She went on, got a houseful of laughs, then and there decided to switch her major. Says Carol: "It's kind of like dope. You get hooked...
...Director Sidney Lumet (Twelve Angry Men) adhere to the original that only eleven pages of the text were cut to get the film down to three hours. The play, a long slice of O'Neill self-fictionalized autobiography, deals with the bedeviled Tyrone family-the mother a pitiful dope addict, the father a stingy sot, the younger son a tuberculosis victim, and the elder son a cynical lush...
...into their drama. This is a revolutionary American film, the first to use the techniques discovered by Europe's "new wave." The producers of The Connection are currently fighting censorship by the New York State Board of Regents; ironically, in a film that deals graphically with such themes as dope addiction and homosexuality, the Board of Regents objects only to the use of the word "shit," which appears twenty-eight times (Variety counted). When Ephraim London, who represents the producers, wins his court fight (he says he will take his case to the Supreme Court if necessary), the Board...
...picture, De Sica will direct Sophia in a loose adaptation of Jean-Paul Sartre's The Condemned of Altona. The screenplay has perhaps the darkest plot that has ever thickened. A young German (Max Schell) feels so guilty about his part in the war that he becomes a dope addict. Various women try to cure him with love, first his sister, then his sister-in-law (Sophia Loren), but not even that much sex can help him. He has a fight with his ex-Nazi father (Fredric March), then a reconciliation. Then both men commit suicide...
...next few years he and Rimbaud loved and fought all over northern France. England and Belgium. During this period, Rimbaud wrote his best poems, The Illuminations, which combined a child's joy in nature with the hallucinations of a youth dabbling in occult sciences and dope: naivete, depravity and delusions were fused into poems that might be the joint work of Orpheus, Freud and Hans Christian Andersen...