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ADAMS HOUSE JCR. Martha Pearlman, harpsichord. Lecture-recital of Italian 17th century music. Free. Feb. 9, 8:30 p.m. Adams House Chamber Singers. Works by Byrd, Josquin, Haydn, and Redford. Free...
FRIDAY: Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here. Abraham Polonsky (blacklisted in the fifties as a fellow-traveler) wrote and directed thi hard-neadest in 1969. Robert Redford, Katherine Ross, and Robert Blake highnight the cast. CH. 7, 11:50 p.m. Color...
Says Pollack, "I'm as much a victim of the romantic myth of 'getting away' as anyone else. My head tells me it's myth but I don't want to believe it is..." Like Redford, who built his own resort and personal retreat in the same Wasatch range where Jeremiah Johnson was filmed. Pollack has a vacation "cabin" with running water, heat, and a dishwater...
...scenes with new snow, you couldn't have the actor's tracks in the shot. You'd have to take a snowmobile, move the actor into thicket by some back way, and call him on a two-way radio to come out." He recalls other difficulties: the scene of Redford riding through the Crow burial ground was shot in a driving snowstorm with barely enough light for the cameras; for a shot of Redford chipping a stone tool by the side of a lake at down, the crew had to set up at three in the morning...
...Pollack's films have been (in his words) "period pieces," including the film which he has just finished shooting, The Way We Were. Starring Redford once again, with Barbara Streisand, it is "a political love story, about two very intelligent people who don't end up together because of ideological differences." The film focuses on three different periods in the recent past; the Spanish Civil War, World War II, and the '44 election and for the first time in any film, the period of the Hollywood Black Lists...