Word: manic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Released soon after the Cuban Missile Crisis, the film's manic portrayal of the players in the American Cold War machine is no less relevant today. The "failure of the human element," as the president so delicately puts it, does not create the bomb crisis of Strangelove. It is the dreaded "Doomsday Machine," irrevocably set to detonate Russia's entire atomic arsenal at even the slightest nuclear strike and destroy every organism on the planet, which ups the stakes of the Cold War. This is the ultimate Bigtoy in the race for deterrence...
...central mystery and plot element of the film, Anna's disappearance, is never explained or resolved. The characters' lives remain aimless, disenchanted, fraught with a low-lying depression and highlighted by occasional bouts of manic energy. Claudia and Sandro drift towards their own terrible resolution without resolution, while the rest of the characters drift out of the film entirely...
...play three weeks at the Pudding, and then on to Broad way precisely because he was astounding and has a following that remembers him so. Sadly enough, like many trailblazers, his genius just doesn't translate to the next generation. Maybe we are spoiled by sound bites and the manic energy of today's comics, but watching an old guy prattle on for an hour-and-a-half is what boosts the suicide rate around the holidays. We feel so guilty. We know we should like you. Yes, we owe a great debt to your genius and hard work...
This is not to say that Gray Sexton does not acknowledge the mental illness component (she even suggests that Anne was a misdiagnosed manic depressive), however she does insist on portraying her mother as active and not passive. Perhaps she does this in order to maintain her mother's artistic integrity. If Gray Sexton were to insist that her mother was a certifiable lunatic then what would she be saying about her poetry? Instead the author is quick to illustrate how gifted her mother was and how deliberate her work had become. The author tells the reader that ever since...
...schizophrenia program is the second documentary in a series on mental illness developed by Bill Lichtenstein, a former producer for the ABC-TV show 20/20. His choice of subject matter had personal meaning: he came down with manic-depressive disease in 1986 and spent four years "struggling with the illness to get it under control medically." After getting better -- Lichtenstein is on the drug Tegretol -- he founded Lichtenstein Creative Media in New York City. Fittingly, his first project was a 1992 Voices program for NPR on manic depression. It was narrated by Patty Duke, who also suffered from the disease...