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...Norman Mailer, bestselling novelist and social critic, was charged with owing $80,000 in taxes and penalties for 1976 and 1977. When he could not pay, the IRS seized his house in Provincetown, Mass., which was valued at $135,000, and auctioned...
...were dead. In America, travelling companies that repeated Shakespeare or other European imports were very popular. Yet, says Berlin, these were only "escapist, money-making entertainment," yet to be considered art. Making that leap to original art was the accomplishment of O'Neill and his amateur theater group, the Provincetown Players. Also credited with bringing vemacular to the American stage, he set many of his plays in backgrounds that demanded specific U.S. regional dialects. His ease with language, his imaginative use of sound, light and gesture, his bold experimentation with expressionism and realism and his personal, emotional appeal made American...
DIED. Jack Tworkov, 82, revered member of the New York school of abstract expressionist painting; in Provincetown, Mass. An admirer of Cézanne, Tworkov worked with bold yet lyrical brushstrokes to build up fields of color, which he played against one another. Like many abstract expressionists, he found his subject in the act of painting. He once said, "My hope is to confront the picture without a ready technique or prepared attitude...
...During the only local bank heist in anyone's memory, the teller convinces the robber that his take ($300) is a lot of money to carry around in cash. The robber is obediently investing some of it in a Christmas club account when the police arrive. "Down in Provincetown they got murders," a colleague tells the author, with a trace of envy. "By Jesus, the guys that did it drove through this town . . . They could have done it right here and taken them to P-town for all we know...
Under Beatty's direction, Jack Nicholson proves how resourcefully sexy an actor he can be. His Gene O'Neill stalks the shrouded Provincetown beach in search of the eloquence of fog people; lounges lynxlike and purrs out a denunciation of political commitment; walks slowly toward Louise and waits as she steps up into their first illicit kiss-the most erotic moment in a movie that is as much about comrades as about lovers. Maureen Stapleton makes a flinty, domineering, humane Emma Goldman and, with just a hint of Bella Abzug brassiness, underlines Reds' straddling of two periods...