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...There were very few fellows who did have a lot of money to fool around with," he adds...
Looking ahead to future productions, Golan announced the signing, on a Carlton Hotel napkin, of aging Enfant Terrible Jean-Luc Godard to direct a modern version of King Lear in Hollywood, perhaps with Marlon Brando as Lear and Woody Allen as the fool. (No, Golan admitted, the two stars had not even been approached to appear in the film -- but then again, they hadn't said no.) In any case, Godard by now should be accustomed to negative responses. His new film, a handsome, typically perverse antidrama called Detective, was booed at ; its gala screening, and as he was about...
Crack a Peter De Vries novel at random and you are likely to find a Midwesterner trying just a little too hard to keep from making a fool of himself among the sophisticates of the Northeast. The journey from Pocock, Ill., to Decency, Conn., has been played forward, backward and sideways, sometimes strictly for laughs and often, as in The Blood of the Lamb, to illustrate that comedy is not the opposite of tragedy but its Siamese twin...
Second only to Albion are P. Brien Lasolino as Thersites, the urchan fool who serves as a go between for the Grecian and Trojan camps, and NIck Lawrence as Pandarus. As written by Shakespeare, Thersites provides the audience with a running commentary cum critique of the main players in the tragedy. Pondering on what it would be like to be Menelaus, Thersites remarks "to be an ass, were nothing, be is both ass and ox; to be an ox, were nothing, he is both ox and ass. To be a dog, a mule a cat, a finch, a toad...
...there grew the faint hope that maybe the adversary would want to quit fighting and talk, and that, too, always seemed just beyond his reach. "I come to the office thinking Ho has to be on the line. But he isn't, and we can't fool ourselves about Ho. It's like an old cowboy used to say, 'There's no use being poor and stupid all your life when you can buy a pint of whiskey and be rich and smart in an hour.' We can't do that...