Word: sherwoods
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Then, too, Irving may be hoping that out of the Hughes affair he will get an even better story than the billionaire's "confessions" he tried to peddle. Speaking of that book on the whole affair, says his friend, Jim Sherwood, "he told me, 'Jim, it's going to be a marvelous book!' And he ticks off the chapters as they happen each day." On another occasion, Irving told his former lawyer, Martin Ackerman, that "someone up there"-pointing skyward-was following him and filming his life...
...Winesburg, Ohio, Sherwood Anderson wrote of "grotesques," people who took a single truth to themselves, called it theirs and tried to live by it. "It was the truths that made the people grotesques," Anderson said. Once embraced so singlemindedly, any truth "became a falsehood...
...movie has no plot at all but several sub-plots, none of which ever develop into anything. There is a love interest between Motorhead Sherwood, an actor who appears to suffer from some brain malfunction, and a vacuum cleaner that isn't really a vacuum cleaner but is actually some guy dressed up like a vacuum cleaner who never talks but merely inhales. There is another guy who wears a nun's habit and is supposed to represent a groupie who has taken an overdose of barbiturates and ascends to Heaven. There is Jeff the bass player who drinks...
...think perhaps it's time to read again the story of Robin Hood who, in the tradition of Sherwood Forest took from the rich and gave to the poor," McGovern mused...
...stereotypical words serve to define and exhaust the nature of the people involved. First comes the dutiful wife (Jessica Tandy) with her 50-year badge of marital honor. Then there is the earthy, pleasure-giving mistress (Colleen Dewhurst), the sympathetic lawyer friend (George Voskovec), a hostile daughter (Madeleine Sherwood) and a remorse-laden son (lames Ray). Finally, there is a flip nurse (Betty Field) and the trusted family physician (Neil Fitzgerald), who has been something like a brother to the dying man. As the characters talk, a mounting pile of reportage -without even a grain of redeeming insight-gradually buries...