Word: poetes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Thanksgiving Visitor, set in backwoods Alabama, elaborates on Capote's glowing relationship with his only boyhood friend, an old spinster cousin named Miss Sook. She had no education and had never traveled beyond the county borders. She was "a poet of a kind but deeply suppressed. She might have been an Emily Dickinson in another culture." In the simple TV tale, she coddles young "Buddy" (as Capote is called) and tries to shield him from his dour and insensitive relatives in the parentless household. The casting, supervised by the author, is impeccable. Geraldine Page, who won an Emmy award...
...horrendous Hieronymus Bosch leads the field as a demonic painter; his surrealism still makes an indelible if no longer credible impression. The plates are plentiful, inclining in the heavenly to cool greens and blues, and in the infernal nightmares to somewhat hotter tones. Critic Hughes, who is also a poet, has written the text, which stands in its own right as a guided tour of the history and topography of the spiritual cosmos...
...between Eliot and Pound, what began as a mere esthetic experiment-the mixing of time and place, vulgar anecdote and ancient legend, ethics and pop songs, classical gods and modern nonheroes-became a great work. A kind of miracle happened: the ferule of the teacher became the poet's magic wand...
...discovers that two men love her and then marries the wrong one. Eleanor Lindsay, who plays the part, makes a stunning and no doubt difficult transition from a wide-eyed girl who recoils at the thought of sex to a sad housewife married to a bitter, unsuccessful poet. Miss Lindsay seems somewhat stiff and unsure of herself at times, but with a few more performances this should disappear...
Another fortunate casting choice is George Sheanshang as Leonidik, the poet. In the first act, he makes the perfect budding writer--soft voice, gay eyes, fluent hand motions. When, in the third act, the gaiety turns sour, Sheanshang becomes a horrible figure of pathetic impotency...