Word: hacketts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...truth seems to be that Gallo was leading a schizophrenic life in those last days: a steel-tough gunman in racket circles; a philosophic, warm conversationalist outside the Mob. Whether he was really at home in both roles, or just a good actor, he was clearly convincing. Actress Joan Hackett found him fascinating well before she knew of his Mafia connections. "I liked him completely apart from any grotesque glamorization of the underworld," she recalls. "I thought his attempt to leave that life was genuine. He was the brightest person I've ever known." But Gallo also conceded that...
...keep that compact with the audience. Most of Night Watch seems like a rehash of Gaslight, with a neurasthenic wife being driven totally batty by her calculating husband and his mistress (Elaine Kerr). An unprepared-for ending quite reverses this premise. As the lady with frayed nerve ends, Joan Hackett is convincingly twitchy, but she overworks the part to camouflage how underwritten the play is. In superior forms of suspense, the audience is tipped to what the characters do not know. In inferior forms, like Night Watch, the audience is in the dark and must wait, none too pleasurably...
...Hollywood director-writer-producer Joe Mankiewicz, his failed screen test, his drunken weekend with the young Budd Schulberg at Dartmouth while working on a picture called Winter Carnical . The hard-core gossip is laced with memory portraits provided by such Fitzgerald comrades as screenwriters Nunnally Johnson, Frances and Albert Hackett, and Anita Loos, and friends like actress Helen Hayes and director George Cukor...
...Nathaniel West (who died in an automobile accident) been writing after the advent of the L.A. freeway system and Ralph Williams used-car lots, one suspects that Tod Hackett's apocalyptic vision in Day of the Locust would have been a mammoth car pile-up rather than "The Burning of Los Angeles." (Instead, Godard has provided us with the end-of-the-world traffic jam in his 1968 Weekend...
...resisted the contemporary trends to class portrayals and clear ideological perspectives in favor of examining more fundamental spiritual maladies, defined by the banality of everday existence. Tod Hackett of The Day of the Locust, recently graduated from Yale, is no less caught up in the Hollywood dream factory than his pan-handler and pimp friends. West grew to condemn not Americans but American ways and manners, evident in the leathery rationalizations of business leaders, as well as the radical polities of many of his friends...