Word: recut
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...worked with hard effort and a little magic, but something has gone terribly wrong. Director Minnelli's once wondrous alchemy turns everything to lead. The movie is disjointed, sappy, hysterical; and the actors, perhaps sensing trouble, press on with painful, overbearing desperation. American-International, the distributor, has substantially recut the movie, which is easy enough to believe. A Matter of Time does not look at all like a Minnelli movie. The fastidious craftsmanship that he has through the years expended even on the lowliest undertaking is nowhere in evidence. This movie cannot have been a happy occasion...
Herbert Gold, now 48, is sticking with the process to the bittersweet end. His story, Heart of the Artichoke (1951), with its rich portrait of the tough Cleveland grocer modeled on Gold's own father, is a classic of J.A. fiction. But by the time Gold recut his tale in Fathers (1967), the material had worn badly. In My Last Two Thousand Years, Gold drops all pretense of storytelling and joins the decolletage school of literary autobiography: revealing just enough to entice the reader into turning the pages, even after it becomes apparent that the author will never satisfactorily...