Word: revealed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Perfect World, which Eastwood directed from John Lee Hancock's script, is not another dark fable about Camelot. The stage is smaller here, the concerns personal rather than political. This is an old- fashioned, nicely spun-out, two-handed character drama. It just takes the film a while to reveal who its main players are and how ambitious its agenda...
...mystery. "Jane Martin" is a pseudonym for the author or authors of seven plays over the past decade, including the prizewinners Talking With and Cementville. It is widely believed the reclusive author is Jory himself, in collaboration with a literary adviser to his theater. Says Jory, who refuses to reveal anything: "She honestly feels, for whatever reason, that she couldn't write plays if people knew who she was and what she was." If remaining secret is the price for plays of the caliber of Keely and Du, let her stay hidden forever...
...that 27 years have passed, we can reveal a tiny secret concerning the celebrated type-only cover about God. TIME contributor John Elson, who was then our religion writer, recalls that artist Larry Rivers created a three- dimensional painted collage for the cover that was deemed by everyone from Henry Luce on down to be great art but too confusing. The red-type-on-black motif was a last-minute substitute, as much an act of deadline desperation as editorial inspiration...
...must translate the glances and cramped gestures of Ada's own aboriginal language. Sometimes her sideways stare says, "Men! Jeez!" and suggests the wry comedy The Piano could have been if it had not aimed higher. But mostly we see two eyeholes burning through the mask of civility to reveal raging helplessness -- until Ada finds hope in passion. Then she must face the prospects of Flora's betrayal, Stewart's rage, the loss of the piano, the sacrifice of limb and life...
...comes to the beach and finds her piano in a crate. Opening it, she plays ecstatically; her daughter dances gaily, garlanded in seaweed; and Baines gets a first inkling of the lifeline that art is for Ada. The camera ascends to Campion's favorite bird's-eye view to reveal a huge sea horse magically sculpted from sand and shells. Life, this beautiful image suggests, is a pattern we cannot see, except through the artist's Olympian...