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...larger role in photography than they have had in the other contemporary arts, and their work is strong. Diane Arbus, whose retrospective is currently at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, speaks with the power of social critic as poignant and shocking as the biting poetry of sylvia plath. Her portrait of identical twins stores at us not with the duality of nature's superior creation, but with the power to draw us into an interaction with their freak world; her portraits do not scare us away, but take us directly into a curious, unexamined world...
...subjected the hallucinated blankness of urban life, mostly in and around New York, where she was born and lived, to a uniquely truthful scrutiny, like Eurydice with a lens in the tunnel to Hades. A year has passed, and now Arbus is as much a cult figure as Sylvia Plath; a collection of her photographs is due to be published this fall, and the Museum of Modern Art has given her a posthumous retrospective. It is by far the most moving show in what, to date, has been a generally boring art season in Manhattan. For Arbus did what hardly...
Joey's first and only Hollywood connection is Sally Todd (Sylvia Miles), a bleached-out starlet living off alimony payments and her TV game show money. He conducts this relationship with the bland, innocent dispassion and quiet self-sufficiency which have virtually become Dallesandro's (and Warhol's) popular trademarks--while she is a turbulent mass of emotions, insecurities, and hurts, always seeking his support without success. Her pleading queries--"Do ya think I look allright" or "Did ya think I was a good actress, Joey?"--find no response except their own echo; Joey's adrenalin seems to run only...
Heat, a faggot rehash of Sunset Boulevard, is about an aging, braying B-picture movie star (Sylvia Miles) who takes up with a narcissistic stud (Joe Dallesandro). The film was made by the Andy Warhol epigone Paul Morrissey, who, like his master, exploits the sorry selection of freaks who have been recruited for the cast. Thus the audience is invited to have a good laugh at the gargoyle visage of Miles, chortle over Dallesandro's near-autistic blankness, and revel in the antics of an obese motel owner, and a schizophrenic lesbian. The lazy profanity and the grungy, grim...
Panella, who earns $25,000 a year, lives with his Italian-speaking wife Sylvia and their three children in a comfortable Parisian suburb. In his current role as deputy director of BNDD'S key Region 17, which includes Marseille, Panella's wardrobe runs to sporty suits. When he operated as an agent, he added a big pinky diamond and, frequently, a cigar. "By the time you're through with a case," he says, "you sometimes think you're a trafficker. You sure as hell look like...