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...three sisters to the U.S. He has laid a veneer of American-style street smarts on the skills of the hamal, or dock walloper, who learned survival on the wharves of Turkish Constantinople. Even more important, in the two decades since Stavros' first arrival on the bestseller lists, Kazan, the stage and screen director, has learned to write a novel. Under the surface of his adrenal prose style and a crowded, boiling plot, the author provides a cast of authentic substance and feeling...
...ANATOLIAN by Elia Kazan; Knopf; 436 pages...
...Last Tycoon (1976) d. Elia Kazan...
During this thime he made East of Eden,for which Elia Kazan tapped Dean for the role of Cal. He flew out to California, made the film and returned to New York. By the time the movie was released and Dean was becoming well-know, Dean skipped the opening party for Eden to fly back to California to make Rebel Without A Cause. He was 24, a promising though not terribly popular actor. Brando was all the rage, and had created such an aura about himself, that almost anyone else was sucked into the vaccuum...
Such sexual motifs were contrasted both visually and musically with emblems of faith. A bishop in sumptuous vestments made an appearance. Dancers knelt as a figure representing Our Lady of Kazan, the Madonna pictured on one of Russia's holiest icons, glided mysteriously onstage carrying the Christ Child...