Word: metaphoritis
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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This director bears no resemblance whatsoever to his armchair counterparts in Hollywood. For Werner Herzog, filming his latest effort Fitzcarraldo, only hauling this massive ship over the mountain would properly illustrate the central metaphor of his movie. Perpetually choosing the most difficult route possible to achieve his goals, Herzog scorns the shortcuts and props that usually dominate his medium...
Music is a natural metaphor to Sennett, for he spent his boyhood training to be a professonal cellist. While getting his A.B. at the University of Chicago, he also was accepted as a student of conducting under Monteux. At the age of 21, as he came onstage to begin a cello recital, the nervous tension became too great. "I vomited into my cello," he recalls with a grimace. "I can laugh about it now, but at the time it was . .." Words fail...
...sleight of hand tips the hand of Director James Lapine. This will be an evening of chipper invention, but one that will skirt the deeper, darker depths of this forest, where magic turns to mystery and the tumbling appearance of the fairy kingdom's wayward spirits becomes a metaphor for the wayward heart's enigmatic leapings...
...sense of humor. And Max Cantor shines as the ridiculous subjectivist poet who tells Alan Norman that all objects exist only in the poet's mind: "If I shut my eyes they all disappear." The poet's theory is broken when the dog bites his hand, a simple, timely metaphor for the coming world...
...memory, I have made no such comment in a recent speech or in any other speech or statement since I became director of ACDA. Beyond that, the only remark to this effect I can recall was in a letter to a friend, discussing his use of the metaphor. A copy of my letter was purloined from my files...