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...Michelangelo was dead, so in 1916 the United Daughters of the Confederacy hired Gutzon Borglum. All they wanted him to construct at Stone Mountain, an island-size rock five miles round and 825 feet tall near Atlanta, was the world's biggest sculpture: a memorial to the Confederacy...
...Rome's Cinecitta film complex, craftsmen are putting the finishing touches on an 18-ft., 550-lb. plaster statue of a male nude who could be a cousin of Michelangelo's David. From the neck up it is David-David Niven, that is. Niven has never seen the colossus, which is intended for his aptly titled film The Statue. His features were copied from photos. But he has learned that it deviates in one significant way from the prototype. "The statue has a fig leaf," the actor notes. "And quite a large...
...will have views about certain things that happen," he said, discussing the relationship of politics and poetry. "What I think they must remember is that by writing they are not going to change the course of history. The history of Europe would be the same today if Chaucer, Dante, Michelangelo, Shakespeare, had never lived. When it comes to political and social evils, political action and straight journalistic reportage of facts can change history, but poetry cannot...
...MICHELANGELO ANTONIONI has made another film for us to argue about. Zabriskie Point, a lush extravaganza about the American youth revolution and the violence that envelops it, lacks the neurotically painful symbolism, the lunatic clowns and invisible tennis balls, of Blow-Up. And the moral degeneration that played itself out in the mind of Blow-Up's hero has been brought out in the open and invested in the society at large in Zabriskie Point . But for all its stylistic simplification, Zabriskie- remains as open to speculation and post-movie debate as Blow-Up was. Antonioni collides with his subject...
...Federico Fellini said recently. "I would be an alien, unable to understand the subtle shadings of character and gesture. I would be like a tree uprooted, unhealthy out of its own soil." It is canny advice that should have been heeded by the maestro's peer and countryman, Michelangelo Antonioni, whose movies seem to deteriorate in direct proportion to the distance they are made from home...