Word: incestousness
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...housewife and mother of three, Mrs. Charles Black, 38, was considerably shocked when she had a look at Swedish Director Mai Zetterling's Night Games, a morbid tale featuring incest, masturbation, sodomy and more. "Pornography for profit," said Mrs. Black, who used to know something about movies-and profit-when she was Shirley Temple. And so, when her fellow members of the board of directors of the San Francisco Film Festival insisted that Night Games remain on the schedule for showing later this month, Shirley resigned from the board and the festival. "I'm not a censor...
...reception of Night Games was roiled by turbulence over its moral quotient. Directed by Sweden's Mai Zet-terling, the film is an eerie story of a mother-and-son's investigation of every forbidden game: masturbation, incest, sodomy, necrophilia, golf. It was shown only to the press and the festival jury, but Venice's Giovanni Cardinal Urbani felt obliged "again this year to express moral reserve." Retorted Director Zetterling, a 41-year-old former actress who learned her trade from Ingmar Bergman: "Censorship is such a highly complex affair. Things of violence, war, crimes-in Sweden...
...brothers and sisters. The two brothers who take in and then evict the scrofulous bum in The Caretaker might be doing it to their own father. Pinter's characters are both strange and familiar with one another, as members of a family are. There is a trace of incest in his plays, and his characters take cover behind a smoke screen of language that is outwardly lucid and inwardly impenetrable. Pinter is the master of remaining incommunicado while talking, of suggesting how people keep each other at a distance with words...
...Moravia has been forced to prove his point by writing novels of inaction. This one is not only inactive; it is stillborn. Francesco Merighi, a journalist with sex problems (Moravia's hang-up), tires of his wife and examines the possibility of a relationship with his stepdaughter (step-incest?). Nothing happens, though, because that is not really what Merighi wants: "She represented the nullity which I would be able to love simply because it was nullity." The book is in the form of a diary that Merighi keeps in the hope that its recorded trivia will support a novel...
...Bond Honored, British Playwright John Osborne's tumid adaptation of an atrocious horror show by 17th century Spaniard Lope de Vega, has a hero who commits rape, murder, treason, multiple incest and matricide, and blinds his father-after which he is crucified in precise imitation of Christ. London's critics cast one look at the tasteless mayhem at the Old Vic and held their noses. Whereupon Osborne, 36, flipped his Angry Aging Man's lid, firing off telegrams to the London papers. Osborne declared an end to his "gentleman's agreement to ignore puny theater critics...