Word: tuberculars
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...film from a screen play by Columnist Pete Ham ill, is sup posed to pierce "the western myth's special heart of darkness."It covers all the familiar territory, right down to the gunfight at the O.K. Corral. But this time Holliday is not a tubercular dentist from the East turned gunslinger, he is an itinerant murderer whose morals are only slightly stronger than his lungs. Kate Elder is a morose, scurvy hooker...
...drunken older brother, James Jr., Stacy Keach lacks something of Jason Robards' Broadwayish flamboyance but inflects the role with more guilt-racked anguish. James Naughton has the same difficulty that Bradford Dillman had in the original in suggesting the steely resolve that the tubercular young Edmund (really Eugene O'Neill himself) must have possessed to wrest his genius from these stricken souls...
...being sure if there would be a tomorrow. All of a sudden the important projects, relationships, criteria, values by which 1 defined myself lost their worth. I learned quickly to tune in on my being, my existence in the now, because that was all there was -that, and my tubercular body. It was a valuable experience to face death, for in the experience I learned to face life...
POOR, isolated, shy, genial, tubercular, counting winters and declining tapers, ruminating over the households revolving in his mind, diffidently putting them to paper, Anton Chekhov wrote four of the most wonderful comedies in world literature. Few people find Chekhov comical. Most read about these lugubrious, slow, heavy houses full of people protesting their happiness, lamenting their misery, incapable of action, occasionally incanting a vision of the future. We search for themes, ideas, directions, and find none unambiguously free from irony. We see only dolorous mansions crackling with nervous expectation, yearning for changes, immobilized by forces vaguely understood, secure only...
...fact, the story of La Prisonnière is downright repugnant. The mistress (Elisabeth Wiener) of a with-it artist (Bernard Fresson) falls for the owner of her lover's gallery. The owner (Laurent Terzieff) looks like the sort of tubercular pervert who might peddle pornographic pictures to schoolchildren, but he gets his kicks from having fun with adults. He ties his girls in chains, photographs them in submissive attitudes, fondles and then bullies them into abject sexual surrender. The whole thing is pretty disgusting, what with the heroine being degraded, her lover becoming murderously outraged, and the dirty...