Word: macbeths
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...MACBETH...
...depend on prints for his contact with Michelangelo). His famous Glad Day, showing Albion, the spirit of resurgent England, in mid-dance with his arms flung ecstatically wide, was based on a mediocre diagram of Vitruvian man in an old treatise on proportion; it transcends its source as Macbeth transcends Holinshed...
...visual and verbal elements constantly elbow each other aside, yielding neither great drama nor great film, but a tentative mess with little emotional force of its own. It is highly significant that perhaps the fullest realization of Shakespeare on film, Akira Kurosawa's Castle of the Spider's Web (Macbeth), is in Japanese...
Irwin Shaw (Beggarman, Thief), after complimenting himself on understanding women: "I'll tell you another writer who was ahead of his time on women. Shakespeare. Look at Rosalind, Portia. His women were key figures. Lady Macbeth was the Bella Abzug...
Bing and Callas sparred continually over her roles and her schedules. In 1959, after she refused to sing Traviata and Macbeth in the same week, Bing fired her. Callas snarled publicly about "those lousy Traviatas that he wanted me to do." Bing riposted: "Mme. Callas is constitutionally unable to fit into any organization not tailored to her own personality." By 1965 almost all was forgiven. Bing brought her back for two Toscas. Justly they became the hottest tickets of the season, for Callas' Tosca was revelatory, not so much a posturing, jealous bitch, as a woman unsettled by fear...