Word: littlewoods
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Indefatigable Romantic. Terkel's prime failing is his unwillingness to contradict-or entertain a critical thought -about anyone who was nice enough to spend time with him. He listens rhapsodically as British Director Joan Littlewood says, "I'm sick to death of all these silly old political and social and educational systems which have got in the way of human expression." Not a word from Terkel, wondering whether those systems are not perhaps products of human expression. On the evidence of Talking to Myself, Terkel has rarely sought out people who actually run things. An indefatigable romantic...
...idea was to portray the Second Continental Congress and the beginnings of the American war of independence as occasions for song and dance. Joan Littlewood could have managed it, making a brazenly satiric three-ring vaudeville out of the babble of idealism, pomposity and compromise from which America rather tentatively emerged. Sermons are much closer to the heart of 1776 than satire, however, and the business of turning the founding fathers into a crew of periwigged chorus boys has been accomplished with all due seriousness. Like the hit Broadway show on which it is faithfully based, the movie...
...lost or hostile. That is the folk memory by which our nation has been formed." Some Britons are less worried that this vague Jungian consciousness of the past will be submerged than that some shaky industries of the present will go under. "If we go in now," says Roger Littlewood, 34, an industrial salesman from Birmingham, "European competitors will bring us to our knees before we have a chance to fight on an equal footing. We won't survive...
...credit. In Europe, the only woman director before 1960 that springs to mind is Leni Riefenstahl, responsible for the Nazi propaganda films Triumph of the Will and Olympiad. The situation in the last decade seems to have improved-with the emergence of Agnes Varda, Shirley Clarke, Mai Zetterling, Joan Littlewood, and just recently, Barbara Loden-but the numerical improvement is probably illusory. The fact remains that movie production in this country (and any other country, for that matter) is and always has been under the control of males...