Word: kurtz
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Welles, thrilled by Mankiewicz's idea for a Hearst film, was also desperate. His first RKO project--Heart of Darkness, which would be told with a subjective camera and would star Welles as Marlow and Kurtz--was deemed too pricey. Now, with Mank's unbilled help (the deal specified no screen credit for his script), Welles hoped to turn a jolly plutocrat into a tragic figure, swathe the San Simeon Sun King in the menacing shadows of movie melodrama. Kane would be Welles' Hearst of Darkness...
...subject to historical analysis. I want to learn about historical facts, which may or may not corroborate the stories in the Bible. But that endeavor is of no consequence to my faith in the divine-human relationship as it is made manifest in the Bible. RABBI JEFFREY KURTZ-LENDNER New Orleans
...tale with a bit of porn and pretense. He gravely quotes Elie Wiesel on how Auschwitz negates any attempt to fictionalize it, and then includes fictional scenes of the Holocaust. And did Cartwright really have to call his journalist hero Curtiz, which sounds like Joseph Conrad's Kurtz? Can't anybody write about Africa without invoking Heart of Darkness...
From Stanley Kowalski in A Streetcar Named Desire to Colonel Kurtz in Apocalypse Now, Brando was best when playing characters in torment. Unfortunately, that torment spilled over into his life. According to Peter Manso, author of the 1,118-page Brando: The Biography (1994), Cheyenne's suicide is not the first in Brando's life. "There have been about five girlfriends who have committed suicide," Manso says, "and another three or four who tried. So this is not foreign to him at all." Still, Brando, 71, was deeply affected by the death of the girl he once called "the most...
Great literature often concerns self-discovery through encounter with the Other. In Heart of Darkness, Marlow meets Colonel Kurtz and realizes that a thin line separates the values of civilization and insanity. In Moby-Dick,this guy's chasing around a big whale, but the whale is really a part of him, or at least that's what my Cliffs Notes say. In the Famed "street person episode" of "Diff'rent Strokes," Arnold encounters an epileptic homeless mime, and learns that deep inside, we all have motor co-ordination problems. All of these characters learn and grow through their brush...