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Suddenly, Last Summer, Tennessee Williams at his ripest, with appropriate support from Joseph Mankiewicz, who directed and Gore Vidal, who wrote the screenplay. Katherine Hepburn is Aunt Venable, raising carnivorous plants in her garden and dreaming of her son, Sebastian, a gay post who ended up being eaten by canaibah. Elizabeth Taylor is the traumatized niece who witnessed the set, and Montgomery Clift is the shrink who cures her. Overacted, overwritten and overheated...
...Timesmen Talese describes are not likely to be grateful to him. Sometimes he presents them in quasi-cari-cature. But for all his citified cynicism about personalities, Talese and his book remain oddly in awe of the "good gray lady." and some of his ripest overwriting is put to the service of its glorious past and present. This means that the New York Times emerges from Talese's chronicle-cum-novel with most of its mythology intact. A good reason why The Kingdom and the Power, like the newspaper itself, is best read with a selective...
Such a background gives Barenboim a fresh and unabashed outlook on some of the challenging peaks of the piano repertory. Most pianists refrain from tackling Beethoven's 32 sonatas until their ripest years. Barenboim had learned them at 14, played them in a cycle of concerts in London last spring, and is now recording them all on the Angel label. "If you could work to an ideal interpretation, then you'd have to wait to record everything on the day before you die," he says. "All music is something that's made at a certain time...
Through a Glass Darkly. Perhaps the best, certainly the ripest, film ever made by Sweden's Ingmar Bergman...
Through a Glass Darkly. Perhaps the best, certainly the ripest film ever made by Sweden's Ingmar Bergman...