Word: legendes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Particular Good. In a remarkable fantasy-within-a-fantasy, titled The Legend of the Last Jew on Earth, Cohen completes the persecution theme...
...LEGEND OF HELL HOUSE owes more than a passing debt to Shirley Jackson's fine novel The Haunting of Hill House, and to the clammy film Robert Wise adapted from it in 1963. Both the plot and shocks here are similar, if not so forceful: a small, antagonistic group of researchers shut themselves up in an ominous old house to divine its dark secrets. The house preys on the various psychological weaknesses of the investigators, enlarging their hidden personal frailties into flaws that are often fatal...
...Hoover is "getting old and he's worried about his legend." Huston advised the President to invite the director to a "stroking" session and overrule...
...child first takes for herself the name of Solitude. She survives a pair of doting masters, the initial freedoms gained by the French Revolution, the forced-labor corvees which are then resumed, and a subsequent revolt. She joins other fugitives slaves almost by accident; Solitude becomes a figure of legend only in their final battle, fighting against French armies who hope to re-establish slave trade. Violent revolt is the final, inevitable, heroic support of the meager life she is left with...
Green bore a bulky resemblance to George S. Kaufman, and he could be almost as funny, talking in an original staccato shorthand. Broadway legend has it that when he wanted a friend to give him a phone call, he would say: "Gimme a quick Ameche one of these days," referring to Don Ameche's bio-pic of Alexander Graham Bell. Canceling a meeting: "Can't meet you today -unforch...