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Divorced. By Vanessa Redgrave, 30, lissome film star (Morgan!, Blow-Up): Tony Richardson, 38, Academy Award-winning director (Tom Jones); on grounds of adultery with Jeanne Moreau while filming The Sailor from Gibraltar (see CINEMA); after four years of marriage, two children; in London...
...Sailor from Gibraltar is Writer-Director Tony Richardson's contribution to the Cinema of the Absurd. Cinema because the actors in it move, however torpidly; absurd because it is film-flam posing as philosophy...
...Sailor promotes the feeling of a mal-de-mare's nest from the beginning. That most shopworn of all modern literary figures, Alienated Man (Ian Bannen), is on vacation in Italy, accompanied by his mistress, played with leggy lassitude by Vanessa Redgrave. Her British banalities suddenly bug Bannen, and he tells her to buzz off. The very next day he picks up a new playmate, a mysterious and wealthy Frenchwoman (Jeanne Moreau). Playing her customary erotic neurotic, with pouting mouth and matching accessories, Moreau is searching for a young sailor she had an affair with years before...
...Kazin met most of the characters whose portraits make up the rest of the book. Some of the names Kazin discusses are still familiar--Mary McCarthy, Malcolm Cowley, William Saroyan, and James T. Farrell; others, like those of V.F.Calverton, editor of the Marxist Modern Monthly. Otis Ferguson, the ex-sailor who worked on the New Republic, and Francis Corcoran, a pietistic Catholic who also managed to be a Communist, mean nothing to people who can hardly remember the early '50's. But all were part of the literary-political world of Alfred Kazin and all were part...
...girls' race at Wakefield R.I., Jane Chalmers and crew Martha Fransson scudded to a one-point victory over M.I.T. which was skippered by New England's top-ranked woman sailor. The victory in the eight-school field established Radcliffe as the boat to beat in the upcoming Seven Sisters Regatta at Princeton next weekend...