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RICHARD SCHICKEL, a writer for TIME since 1972, has made a television documentary on Elia Kazan and has written a biography of Kazan's acting collaborator, Marlon Brando. Schickel is producing the tribute to Kazan that will air when the filmmaker receives a lifetime-achievement Oscar on March 21. This week Schickel explains why he admires Kazan despite the director's still controversial stance during the McCarthy...
...Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, that most cautious of Hollywood institutions, would abandon the town's ruling narrative conventions and embrace historical indeterminacy by voting--without dissent or demur--to present this year's honorary Oscar to a proud, fragile, now almost silent old man named Elia Kazan is astonishing. And to some of its constituents, adherents of both the old and new left, shocking...
...ceremonies, mark my words, will be vehemently controversial. For one thing, some members of the audience attending the Oscars intend to demonstrate their displeasure at the decision to honor Elia Kazan, the Lifetime Achievement winner who infamously "ratted" out supposed Commies in the film industry, by sitting on their hands or booing when the director appears on stage. But even more interesting will be the weird dynamics within the categories...
...famous eulogy that closes the play is perhaps its cruelest joke. Despite Charley's attempt to ennoble him, Willy's downfall is unrelievedly bleak. (Hardly anyone even shows up at his funeral!) "My God, it's so sad," director Elia Kazan exclaimed to Miller after reading the play for the first time. "It's supposed to be sad," Miller replied. That it continues to fascinate us is testimony to Miller's ability to pack so much--heartbreaking family drama, an Ibsenian tragedy of illusions shattered, an indictment of American capitalism--into one beaten-down figure with a sample case. After...
Stanley Kowalski, for example, may be a brute. But he's also a funny brute, slyly, sexily testing the gentility and hypocrisies by which his sister-in-law, Blanche DuBois, lives as they contend for the soul of Stella, his wife and her sister. Streetcar's director, Elia Kazan, loved this performance because of the way Brando "challenges the whole system of politeness and good nature and good ethics and everything else." It was, of course, this rebelliousness that made Brando a hero to kids growing up in the '50s--and made him a star...