Word: joanna
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...creative task but now plays host to his legend. If a lovely flame has died, no smoke gets in poor Richard's eyes, only more liquor to his lips. He has the kind of flypaper charm that women love to get stuck with. Inevitably, a Columbia journalism student (Joanna Pettet), who has worshiped him between hard covers, proposes marriage...
...Tiki touch: he sets the play adrift for the night and apparently prays that it will reach its destination. As The Caretaker showed, Alan Bates is fearfully good at transmitting menace, but as a charmer his signals are garbled. As Bates's second mate-to-be, Joanna Pettet is an indelibly enticing ingenue, but speech is her impediment. She says all the words correctly, but her avidly sincere delivery turns comic gold into lead. Poor Richard is not rich enough to afford a cast and director who do more to put the play under than over...
...most passionately in Light in August, as the tormented Joanna...
...Joanna remembers: "I had seen and known Negroes since I could remember. I just looked at them as I did at rain, or furniture, or food or sleep. But after that I seemed to see them for the first time not as people, but as a thing, a shadow in which I lived, we lived, all white people, all other people. I thought of all the children coming forever and ever into the world, white, with black shadow already falling upon them before they drew breath...
...figure: in the psychological cant phrase of 1964, he suffers an "identity crisis" because he thinks he is part Negro successfully passing for white. Compounding his agonizing psychological fracture, Joe Christmas takes for his mistress a woman who embodies the Southerner's hated notion of the "outside agitator." Joanna Burden is a spinster, a Northerner, dedicated to helping Negroes. Her failure is that she is not able to know Negroes as individuals, but only as an abstract mass or a brooding presence. One day Joanna is found brutally murdered in her bedroom. Obviously Joe has killed her. But this...