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...HANDMAID'S TALE. Set in a political and sexual dictatorship of the near future, this anti-fundamentalist fable carries a heady pedigree: screenplay by Harold Pinter from the Margaret Atwood novel. But a fine cast is zombified under Volker Schlondorff's drab direction...
...says. She wins on opera, he on cricket. But Antonia casts herself as the junior talent. "I don't criticize Harold's work. I influence Harold, I contribute to his work by living with him, by talking to him." She contributes in another way repeatedly cited by friends: Pinter's manner is as angular and abrupt as his characters, but, observes a friend, "Antonia smooths over the offenses before the evening is out. She is quite good as stage manager...
Marigold Johnson pinpoints Pinter's greatest effect on Antonia: "She has become a lot more involved in public issues, a much more public figure." And she is planted distinctly to the left of her days as wife of a Tory...
...imprisoned for their written words. "I feel passionately about this," she declares, and she leads the cause for English PEN. Holroyd, former PEN president, sings her praises: "She knows when to press and when not to; she can let loose the dogs on them, or she can charm them. Pinter tends to blow his top; she's got a great deal of common sense." Arthur Miller, longtime advocate for imprisoned writers, concurs: "She is very effective...
...fights for dissidents, criticizes Thatcherism and dodges Fleet Street attacks in her activist life with Harold Pinter...