Word: polanski
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From the earliest days of moving pictures, directors have been obsessed with bringing William Shakespeare's Macbeth to the screen. Orson Welles played the tragic king among Stonehenge-like ruins. Akira Kurosawa's murderous medieval lord went down in the most furious fusillade of arrows ever filmed. Roman Polanski, funded by Playboy Productions, filmed Lady Macbeth sleepwalking in the nude...
...Playboy After Dark.? Books: Playboy Press published collections from the magazine and original material like Lenny Bruce?s ?How to Talk Dirty and Influence People.? Nightclub-restaurants: Playboy Clubs soon straddled the globe and franchised his centerfold Playmates into real live (but clothed) Bunnies. Movies: Playboy Productions financed Roman Polanski?s ?Macbeth? and Monty Python?s ?And Now for Something Completely Different,? and Hefner negotiated with screenwriter George Axelrod to make a movie of his life, called ?Playboy...
...daring adaptation of Shakespeare’s Love’s Labour’s Lost set in Meiji restoration Japan and staged in the Quincy Grille—which he successfully petitioned to count for his joint VES-Literature degree—he aspires to a Polanski-cum-Kurosawa career trajectory. His weblog, which features translations of lesser-known Proust and original analysis of the Harvard Film Archive’s latest showings of post-war Icelandic cinema, is updated with alarming frequency. Friends enjoy the sly humour that lurks behind his blue-tinted glasses, which are worn even...
Larry Flynt, and what was your view on Roman Polanski winning an Oscar this year...
...movie was quite accurate. Woody Harrelson plays me better than I could play myself. But any time Hollywood is making a big budget film, obviously they’re going to concentrate on the most outrageous, bizarre aspects of your life for promotional appeal. As far as Roman Polanski goes, Roman is probably one of the most talented, prolific directors today. I’m not trying to justify his sex with a minor. I know a lot of people thought he shouldn’t be given the award, but if the movie was the best, then...