Word: idolator
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However, Baldwin's ideal did not come without its own price. The price for his newfound humanity was his friendship with his boyhood idol, Richard Wright. Perhaps the most heartbreaking essay of the lot is "Alas, Poor Richard," the chronicle of their split. In it, Baldwin describes Wright's anger over a perceived insult and gives his hero's feelings full credit. Baldwin acknowledges his own insensitivity in using Wright as a "springboard" for his own ideas, but he refuses to let his culpability shake loose his convictions. He concludes: "The war in the breast between blackness and whiteness, which...
...deals for dozens more, started an additional four films that remain out there, tantalizingly unfinished. None of his post-Kane Hollywood pictures was made to his specifications; studio bosses cut Ambersons by 43 minutes. To finance his own pictures he became a successful strolling player: something of a matinee idol in Jane Eyre (1944), the wry incarnation of postwar evil in The Third Man (1949) and any number of lowing hierarchs and potentates in his nearly 30- year exile from another chance to astonish Hollywood. Now that he is dead, the industry that discarded him will nominate him for sainthood...
...Newest Wave, mod feel, Susan traces its anxious female motif back to the gangster melodrama films of the 30's, with one twist. Like the vapid blonds in film noir, our housewife seeks her thrills in a more happening world, but there the comparison must end. Her idol is not a man, but Susan; her goal not to grab her idol's pants, but to wear them...
...this desperation suggests a certain pathos, but little can match the pathetic, yet typically wry, desperation of Woody Allen's THE PURPLE ROSE OF CAIRO (Harvard Square, Sunday). Superficially, Mia Farrow sees her movie idol step off the screen, but the Safari suit-clad hero enters not reality, but the world of movie-madness, the realm of the film addict who knows reality too well to want to face it. "You're a wonderful person," Farrow tells her dream man when he arrives in the flesh. "You're fictional, but nobody's perfect...
This summer's other participants included Richard Thomas, raging through the title role in Howard Fast's bawdy, sermonic adaptation of his novel Citizen Tom Paine; Christopher Reeve, shrewdly underplaying a Barrymore-like matinee idol in a meticulous and uproarious revival of The Royal Family; and Bernadette Peters, trying out portions of Song and Dance, the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical extravaganza that is booked to open in mid-September on Broadway...