Word: nest
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...word for it -conveys an obsessive sense of scrutiny. "I really like tempera because it has a cocoon-like feeling of dry lostness-almost a lonely feeling. There's something incredibly lasting about the material, like an Egyptian mummy, a marvelous beehive or hornet's nest." Paint embalms the objects on Wyeth's cold-comfort farms; it stresses their distance from one another and from the eye. Combined with his fondness for large legible shapes and photographic cropping, it can produce arresting images...
...Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest at 2:45 and 7:30; Last Tango in Paris at 12:30, 5:05, 9:45, Friday and Saturday...
Comic strip is one of the terms critics have used for the Ken Kesey counter-culture novel that inspired One Flew Over the Cukoo's Nest. Big Nurse, Billy Bibbet, Randell McMurphy--zip, zam, zowee-am, swoosh, but with a heavy psycho-social punch packed behind it all. Yet the first shots of Milos Forman's movie--grainy, solemn, self-consciously non-colorful--make clear that this Cuckoo will not foist off a super-super allegory of a nut-fram, but a real Oregon mental hospital, in all its disturbing bleakness and isolation. This interpretive risk pays off, and, except...
Died. William Redfield, 49, veteran TV, stage and screen actor whose estimated 2,000 performances included playing Harding in the Academy Award-winning film One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest; of a respiratory ailment complicated by leukemia; in Manhattan. The son of a music arranger and a Ziegfeld Follies chorus girl, Redfield played ten roles on Broadway before he was 20. He later wrote about the theater -Letters From an Actor (1967)-and with Lee Strasberg and Elia Kazan helped found the Actors Studio...
...station owner who says he gave Howard Hughes a ride one day, and then turned up as a beneficiary in one of the late industrialist's alleged wills? The same. Producer Art Linson has signed up Oscar-Winning Scriptwriter Bo Goldman (One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest) and says he hopes to start filming Dummar's life story later this year. "They're already three weeks behind schedule," grumbles Melvin, who had volunteered to play himself on the screen. Instead, he will serve as a technical consultant and possibly one of the film...