Word: maker
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...assayed every Woody Allen production since Take the Money and Run. Schickel first met Allen in 1963, when the comic did his stand-up routine on a TV show where Schickel was book critic. In this week's issue, Schickel examines Allen's maturation as a film maker on the eve of his latest and perhaps greatest triumph, Manhattan. To this task Schickel brings his experience not only as critic, but also as film maker himself, having produced, directed or written 14 TV shows about film history, including last year's comedy compilation Funny Business. Declares Schickel...
...Forthcoming, honest and very, very serrious." That is how Staff Writer Frank Rich describes Woody Allen, the film maker, comic and virtuoso jazz clarinetist he interviewed in Allen's Manhattan apartment for this week's cover story. Says Rich: "Because Woody is involved in none of the side-show glitter of the industry, from TV appearances to Oscar ceremonies, he is different from anyone else I've met in show business." Rich first met Allen while writing a profile of him for Esquire in 1977. Rich's own show business career began at age 13, when...
...painting today, the chief image maker of the City, apart from Bacon himself, is a 47-year-old American from Cleveland, Ohio, named R.B. Kitaj (pronounced Kit-eye). Kitaj has been living in London for more than 20 years, and has not shown regularly in the U.S. Consequently, he seems more of a name than a presence in American art. In England, his reputation is, if anything, exaggerated in the other direction. He is widely regarded as a reincarnation of America's cultural expatriates of the 1920s. When the catalogue essay for his present show of 50 drawings...
...literary criticism, should have taught him to beware these dangers. But in The Flight to Lucifer. Bloom's latest work, the author's zeal to communicate an obscure but not inherently tedious theory of religion overwhelms him, and he does not live up to his chosen role of myth-maker. Bloom clothes his doctrinal argument in a flimsy mantle of epic fantasy. He would probably have done better to write an essay than this dreary mess...
DIED. Gordon Parks Jr., 44, black photographer and film maker (Super Fly, Thomasine & Bushrod) who followed in the footsteps of his famous father, LIFE Photojournalist and Film Director Gordon Parks; in a plane crash near Nairobi, where he was directing a new film...