Word: mad
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...tried to do the same thing when I interviewed Cassavetes. Steeped in the Harvard analytical tradition, I wanted him to "name" his movie, that is, I wanted him to take his portrait of Mabel Longhetti--a woman deemed mad by society because she was more loving than she was supposed to be--and place it in some kind of historical framework. It didn't work. The problem was that our minds worked differently; our mainsprings were as different as a housebroken canal and a frenzied torrent...
Kael criticizes A Woman Under the Influence for being "entirely tendentious: it's all planned, yet is isn't thought out." Her initial premise is wrong; Cassavetes is no Laingian disciple. Laing's The Politics of Experience is an ode to schizophrenia. He claims that they aren't really mad; but that society is. The thrust of the movie is not, however, to explore the reaches of madness but to scrutinize the problems of a love relationship. To call Cassavetes a Laingian is to assume that he analyzes what he sees the same way an intellectual does. But the only...
...Your Dukes and Mad About Mintz. The Edelin trial is over, but there seem to be more farces in town than ever. The choice between these two is clear tradeoff between immediate gratification and helping out a good cause. Put Up Your Dukes is excellent--clearly the best Pudding Show in the last three years and possibly longer. It's everything it should be, with a very funny script that dips from fairly sophisticated Intellectual humor to suggestive double entendre. Mad About Mintz is undergoing some cuts which should make its first act tighter, but what's chiefly interesting about...
...political struggles that lie ahead, obviously the best thing Ford has going for him is his unimperial presidential temperament. As his aide Bob Hartmann puts it: "The Democrats would love for the President to lose his cool, get mad and have a temper tantrum. But he doesn't look back and brood. His philosophy is that each time you huddle, you line up for a new play regardless of whether you've gained or lost on the last...
...going to make theatrical history," announced Eva. The original script has been changed. The two old Brooklyn ladies who mercy-kill homeless tramps have been given a recent European ancestry to explain why Eva and Zsa Zsa romp round like two cocottes from the court of mad King Ludwig of Bavaria. Said Producer David Lonn, wiping a tear from his eye: "They still don't realize how funny they are together...