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...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...
Died. William Littlewood, 69, aircraft engineer and longtime (1937-1963) vice president of American Airlines; of a heart attack; in St. Michaels, Md. Mass air transport was still just a dream in the early 1930s, when Littlewood went to Douglas Aircraft with detailed specifications for the plane that American wanted: twin engines, 200 m.p.h. for 1,425 miles, 21 passengers in reclining armchairs. The result was the DC-3, which became the sturdy backbone of worldwide air travel for 20 years...
...British are not notably enthralled with Lyndon Johnson. But when iconoclastic Director Joan Littlewood brought Barbara Garson's Mac-Bird to town, the critics threw every pan in the kitchen. After seeing the pseudo-Shakespearean parody about Johnson and the death of President Kennedy, the London Daily Mail's critic growled: "Immeasurably witless rubbish." The London Times sniffed: "It is pointless to get too indignant. The production successfully torpedoes what was already a fragile and leaky craft...