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Klaus Kinski's performance accounts for much of Fitzcarraldo's failure. He overacts ferociously at times to the point of self-parody. He seems stuck in some personal theater, far removed from the film. And for all his furious energy, he is completely cramped by his own style. We can...
It was not a reunion of The Group that brought the prodigal daughter back from Paris to her alma mater, but an invitation to celebrate her 70th birthday by being Vassar's first "Distinguished Visitor." Mary McCarthy, class of '33, the ironical Athena of American letters (The Stones...
At its worst, the creature's sting produces mutants: witness the work of David Gilhooly, 38. Gilhooly does pottery frogs; rafts of them, dressed up as Mao Tse Toad, posing as the Gautama Buddha or smothering-deep social commentary, this-beneath piles of super market produce. This kind of...
Once he began writing in earnest, Mann managed his career as though it were the family business. Friends about to review his first novel, Buddenbrooks, a story of materialistic decline and youthful awareness, received detailed instructions from the author, who was 26. Comparisons to Dickens and the "great Russians" were...
I think it's ironical that countries that have instigated violence in the past should be starting the peace movement. I think that this is a good lesson. They are promoting peace because, unlike the U.S., they know war...I feel very favorably about it in general. They might be...