Word: knotts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...OGCP offices are being filled by Frances K. Knott and Dena Rakoff, both of whom started work last week...
With Good Reason. Back in 1967, Audrey Hepburn played a blind girl pursued by a homicidal maniac. But in Wait Until Dark, Playwright Frederick Knott used a series of ingenious devices to keep the killer and the audience dangling. In See No Evil, Scenarist Brian Clemens offers no motivations and precious few plot twists. Nor is his head-on harum-scarum approach improved by Richard Fleischer's blunt direction, which favors sudden cuts to broken corpses and sadistic closeups of a girl precipitously tumbling into catatonia. Manifestly, Fleischer is out for only one thing: to inspire sudden fear. That...
...scene is an MGM staff meeting on an out-of-the-way bench at Knott's Berry Farm...
...Knott and Tate are working together, and no one knows what will happen. These poets have learned to make their own rules. They don't really care about anybody's sense of convention or propriety. Their poems are as innovative and exciting as any being written today, and we are damn lucky to have them. We're even luckier to be able to hear them...
...Knott and Tate are not afraid to become engaged, or to withdraw, depending on how they feel. Tate's poems vary from the short, sly lyrics of The Lost Pilot to a newly wild and surrealist abandon in The Oblivion Ha-Ha, a book inhabited by immense animals and dreams within dreams. His terse, sensual allegories make deadly insinuations about our habits and fears...