Word: joans
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Directed by FRANK PERRY Screenplay by JOAN DIDION and JOHN GREGORY DUNNE...
Raymond Chandler knew the territory well, Nathanael West wrote of it brilliantly in The Day of the Locust, but no one has recently taken the measure of the neon void with such savage precision as Joan Didion. Play It As It Lays was a novel about a young actress, Maria Wyeth, crumbling into the pieces of a psychic jigsaw. Didion drew the Southern California landscape with poisonous accuracy, using its shifting scenes to delineate states of an increasingly troubled mind...
...Joan Didion wrote once in a shrewd essay, "the corruption and venality and restrictiveness of Hollywood have become...firm tenets of American social faith-and of Hollywood's own image of itself." Perry is a film maker who generally works far from Hollywood, but temperamentally and intellectually he is at the very center of the system Didion so deftly described...
HOBBIES: Pilot, author-teacher, and healer of the sick. Perhaps, Gamble's favorite form of relaxation is flying which he frequently enjoys with his wife, Joan, and their children Harry "The Hat", 12, and Thomas "The Tank", three months. As an author-teacher Gamble has distinguished himself in his field as one of the top names in jock literature. His book entitled Physical. Intellectual, and Architectural Balance in the Locker Room has given him the acclaim he deserves and leaves him only second to Yovicsin as the top physical fitness authority east of the Mississippi. As a healer...
BRATTLE. Passion of Joan of Arc. 6, 8:45. Closely Watched Trains. 7:15, wkend...