Word: wanda
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Roman Candles. At 31, Newman has emerged as high priest of the harpsichord, a turtlenecked Bachian missionary not seen since the days of the late Wanda Landowska and Albert Schweitzer. Like Landowska, he plays with enormous verve and intense rhythm, sprinkling musical embellishments like roman candles being tossed from an express train. This startles those who learned their Bach straight, but Newman conquers the doubters with sheer personal conviction. There is something reminiscent of Schweitzer in the way Newman's intellectual and religious philosophy, Zen, permeates his music making and mesmerizes his youthful audiences. Even on the shrill organ...
These are precisely the stereotyped categories that Barbara Loden, actress and film maker, set out to shatter in Wanda, a lowbudget, highly autobiographical effort released last year. Says Miss Loden, who wrote, directed and starred in the picture: "Wanda was the prototype of the unliberated wom an. She had hardly any overtly redeeming qualities. Usually a girl like that would be fixed up to be more at tractive or be made witty. But I wanted to show a real woman from a certain milieu of our society. All my films will probably be fictionalized sociological studies about women and their...
Happy Birthday Wanda June, Kurt Vonnegut's first film, Abbey...
Happy Birthday Wanda June. Kurt Vonnegut's first film, Abbey...
Happy Birthday Wanda June, Kurt Vonnegut's first film, Abbey...