Word: familiarizing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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This is hardly the stuff of which box-office triumphs are made. In their search for financing, the producers heard a familiar show-business refrain: "Not mainstream enough" or "Not youth-oriented enough." Because of the fragile state of Huston's health, insurance companies would underwrite the film only on the condition that his friend Director Karel Reisz stand by. The all-Irish cast -- including Donal McCann (as Gabriel), Donal Donnelly and Dan O'Herlihy -- was drawn largely from Dublin's famed Abbey and Gate theaters, but it had no star power in Hollywood's terms. All studios, major, minor...
...exiled writer, and his plight is, if anything, worse: audiences in his new country know next to nothing of the life he used to write about, and he knows next to nothing of the life familiar to them. To him, America is the Lower East Side of Manhattan plus the abstract, rectilinear shapes of the states on the map he stares at hour after hour. The story that this married couple tells is comic but grim: for the sake of freedom they have given up money, status, craft and identity. They are not only strangers in a strange land, they...
Everyone is familiar with Ronald Reagan's hair, for example. The president is very conscious of his public image and knows that when people look at him, they also see the hair which abuts his face. Thus he has designed his hair to conform to the image he tries to project: large and well-oiled, it says, "This man is head of a large and well-oiled government...
What's Gujarati? A very important Indian language which was, after all, the mother tongue of Gandhi, whose name should be familiar to a Harvard undergraduate. Gujarati merits attention on other counts which we will not go into here for fear of stepping into the intricacies of Indian linguistic and cultural history. We may excuse Rosenthal for not knowing Sindhi, which is spoken by a mere 20 million people in southern Pakistan and various places in India...
Advertising and media have become the real government; Nanny, head of the Money Party and the nation's prime minister, is a senile figurehead who can barely remember lines from her press releases. (Sound familiar?) She is carefully propped up, powdered and filmed by the advertising firms that keep the country deluged with brightly packaged misinformation. And the ad execs who push the Money Party through the elections are as mind-blown as the street junkies...