Word: journey
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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From that dubious starting point, Whitmore's journey runs a predictable course. He meets hate, violence, discrimination, segregation. He endures lurid encounters with whites eager to verify their surrealistic fantasies about Negro sexuality. Written and directed in sledgehammer style, the movie revels in its own righteousness, too often substituting good intentions for good work. And Whitmore's makeup merely makes him look like a dark, wet actor doing Gentleman's Agreement in blackface. What's really wrong with the film, however, stems from Griffin's original thesis. His discovery of the Negro world...
...Anne Bancroft, Sidney Poitier jumped out of his seat and headed for the stage with big bouncing strides, more like a great Negro high jumper than a great Negro actor. He gave Bancroft an exuberant hug, turned to the audience and said emotionally: "It has been a long journey to this moment...
...severe moral vision. He sees man not in modern terms as any individual but as the center of a system of obligations. Evasion or betrayal of these obligations may be punishable by metamorphosis into some monstrous, less-than-human form. Life, he writes, is "a perilous moral journey." The freaks are those who have fallen from grace. Piety is rewarded by full humanity. His "piety," of course, is in the Latin sense of pietas. He is pious in what Webster notes as a second meaning: "Loyal devotion to parents, family, race, etc." And his pieties have been paid...
...lack of inspiring visions in America America is due to a relentless realism--and certainly many immigrants did emphasize the cash value of the golden door-- then Kazan is guilty of inconsistency. Although setting and dialogue are entirely unaffected, the events of Stavros' journey are hardly typical. In the end, he owes his equivocal success to his good looks, even though there are less contingent and less glamorous means of escaping Turkey. And occasionally a trite episode mars the credibility of the story. A fellow immigrant whom Stavros aids early in the picture, for instance, inevitably pops up to repay...
...Mark the Glove Boy Or The Last Days of Richard Nixon, an unsentimental journey over the last episode of Nixon's political life, in which he ran unsuccessfully for Governor of California. Written by Mark (The Southpaw) Harris...