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...first major film, Accattone, drew clerical criticism for its romanticizing of pimps and prostitutes. Three years later Pasolini made The Gospel According to St. Matthew, which angered the left with its reverence. Just before his death, he completed The 120 Days of Sodoma, based on a Marquis de Sade work and set in Italy's Fascist...
Tart-tongued and tempestuous Actress Glenda Jackson, 39, has played fiery female roles ranging from Charlotte Corday (Marat-Sade) to the D.H Lawrence heroine Gudrun Brangwen (Women in Love). Little wonder that the Academy Award-winning actress has been cast as the spirited Sarah Bernhardt who often demanded that her theatrical fees be paid in gold. "I feel I know her," says Jackson, on the set of Sarah. "She refused to be stifled or live her life to other people's conventions." The Divine Sarah, in fact, liked to take naps in a satin-lined coffin to remind herself...
...house in London's Holland Park, a studio in Cornwall ("Cornwall is full of artists and I manage to avoid nearly all of them," she says with glee), and a second studio in the Vaucluse district of Southern France, not far from the ruins of the Marquis de Sade's castle at La Coste. A second-generation Londoner, she has in her family tree a grandfather who worked with Edison on the invention of the light bulb and a great-uncle who was a founding member of the socialist Fabian Society: a background of cold baths and emancipated...
Lust, reasoned the Marquis de Sade, is responsible for ambition, cruelty, avarice and revenge. A couple of centuries before, William Shakespeare had said the same thing, only better, in A Midsummer Night's Dream, a sensual, even savage, account of the lunacy of love. Four sexually infatuated Athenians make fools of themselves and try to murder one another, while jealous Oberon casts a spell on unfaithful Titania that leads her to bed down with an ass. With characteristic perversity, Shakespeare presented this demonic fantasy as an ode to nature, one of his loveliest flights of lyric poetry...
...blinding strobe lights flashed Alice strutted around the stage like Tiny Tim impersonating the Marquis de Sade. He stabbed a life-sized doll that drew a loud roar of approval. Then Alice allowed his pet boa constrictor to slither down his body and protrude its head between his legs. More roars...