Word: tales
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Happy Ending. Secret Ceremony, Director Joseph Losey's baroque story of psychosis and interchange of identity, was given an entirely new introductory scene and thereby converted into a trite tale of domestic friction. And British Director Peter Hall, after a similar experience with Three Into Two Won't Go, is still smarting. The film, he says, "was about the breakup of a marriage so dishonest it needed breaking up. The crisis was provoked by the husband's affair with a young hitchhiker. Universal's new picture is about a probation officer's search...
...origins, bypassed the grind houses and landed the distributors' dream. Wuthering Heights will open at the ultimate Temple of Memory, Radio City Music Hall, sandwiched between an act called "The Educated Dogs" and a musical salute to Stephen Foster. Next on the AIP production schedule: remakes of A Tale of Two Cities and Les Miserables...
Uncle Vanya is a tale of stunted, shunted, desiccated lives. "Can these bones live?" one might ask of the characters. They do in this lovingly fleshed-out revival of the play by off-Broadway's Roundabout Theater, under its able and adventurous director, Gene Feist...
Dance now, says Feiffer, pay the piper later. It is a terrible price. Patsy is murdered in Alfred's arms by an anonymous sniper, and a grisly, incoherent tale of urban warfare ensues. Doors are padlocked, windows are shuttered, rifles are broken out. A paranoid detective (Alan Arkin) tries to solve Patsy's murder -and 344 other unsolved killings -amid drumfire volleys of sniper fire. Alfred lapses into catatonia, reviving just in time to command a witless, meaningless shooting spree...
...them. Any discussion of such questions threatens to bring to light the degree to which the brand of black militancy" now popular on campus is purely the creation of liberal masochism, and, as such, a phenomenon of group psychology rather than politics. But we must remember that the fairy-tale about the emperor's new clothes is really the story of a psychodrama, and though we may currently choose to play it out in an academic setting, we do have to live with the possibility that an occasional up start will come along and point out that the emperor...