Word: newmans
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...period divides into two sub-movements. Gestural painters like Jackson Pollock and Franz Kline energized their canvases with wild brushstrokes, and textured their surfaces by building up their paint. The color-field painters, notably Mark Rothko and Barnett Newman, articulated their sufaces with two or three areas of unruffled color...
Directed by Robert Mulligan Screenplay by Walter Newman...
Screenwriter Walter Newman, adapting Richard Price's tough novel, has no use for dramatic efficiency or synthesis. Besides Stony's story, he tells in lavish detail the histrionic tales of the hero's psychotic mother (Lelia Goldoni), his anorectic kid brother (Michael Hershewe), his sexually troubled dad (Tony Lo Bianco) and his defeated uncle (Paul Sorvino). Newman, like Price, wants to make a larger sociological point about the breakdown of oldtime immigrant values in chaotic modern America, but he overstates the case. Bloodbrothers has so much narrative, most of it melodramatic, that every scene becomes a climax...
...promptly recorded for posterity that Larry Newman proved to be the lucky transatlantic balloonist who got to sleep in the Lindbergh bed at the American embassy in Paris. But it's disappointing that the press did not report what Newman wore on the occasion...
Rescued from the cheerfully destructive crowd at Miserey, the Americans were whisked to Paris, where they were lionized by French officials ("a new bridge between America and France") and invited to spend the night at the American ambassador's residence. Newman won the toss and got to sleep in the same bed that Lindbergh had used after his flight...