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...Back Lot With Fellini...
...Citizen Kane a box-office blockbuster? Did Jean Renoir get gross profit points on La Grande Illusion? And Fellini, did he go way over budget...
...realm of the miraculous sometimes lies just across the border from the fanatical or the tacky. Miracles may turn into roadside tourist traps, Fellini scenes. A revelation may go commercial and look like a snake farm beside the highway in North Florida. The transcendent moment falls from grace and spoils on the ground like rotten fruit. So the territory of the miraculous must be approached carefully, by stages, passing from the gaudiest, shabbiest outer display toward what may, occasionally, turn out to be a deeper truth...
Chaplin, the fourth of eight children of Charlie Chaplin and Oona O'Neill, and Thierree, who has performed for such talents as Federico Fellini and Peter Brook, share a sense of theater as a primal force and of spectacle as something inward. For them it is not spiritual, exactly, but not entirely show biz either. Their circus began in 1971 in Avignon, when it featured 30 performers and a regulation menagerie. In the intervening years, the focus has become more precise, so that now the whole business can quite handily be contained on a bare stage, within the confines...
...normally reserved for commercials hawking business phone systems and airlines. At a time when America needs role models of scientists, engineers and factory managers striving to keep ahead of the Japanese, all prime time offered were Elliot's self-indulgent efforts to direct a public-service spot worthy of Fellini...