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...house itself is strictest Wyeth: gabled white clapboard, severe and trim and sagging a little off plumb; country-craftsman geometry perched on a flat tongue of land at the sea's edge in Cushing, Me. It looks thrifty, and was; its owner bought it for $50 and trucked it to the site. Inside, the illusion of having entered one of the man's pictures multiplies. The ceilings are low, the furniture old and spartan, the rooms small, white and uncluttered. A lot of distinct air surrounds each object. Through the front window, one sees a lawn with...
...secretive-looking Stutz Blackhawk, $38,500 worth of Republican Mafia dream-hearse with a Cadillac engine and custom-fitted luggage, polished like an immense eggplant. Frank Sinatra has one, Elvis Presley owns two; but this model, an engraved plate on the dashboard attests, was fabricated in Turin for Andrew Wyeth. "People expect me to get around in an oxcart," says the painter. "But this thing's pretty useful. I can drive it into the fields when the weather's cold, turn on the heater, and sit on the roof to do a watercolor with my legs hanging inside...
...translates his fiction onto film like it was embossed on slate, exact and crystal clear. As he understated in a recent interview, "I am rather precise, and there is not much room for improvisation once we agree on what the scene is." Each Bogdanovich shot is like an Andrew Wyeth painting, possessing more definition and harder edges than anything real...
PLAY IT AS IT LAYS follows Maria Wyeth, an occasional actress and part-time wife of director Carter Lang, on her descent into herself and her surroundings. When Maria (long "i") arrives at the bottom, the finds nothing, but by then who cares? Certainly not she. Based on Joan Didion's same-titled novel, this is a Hollywood film about Hollywood people. Most of them have knowingly ugly souls; all of them are unhappy. Ambition motors them through their non-lives, and a fondly cultivated sense of insouciance cushions the ride. If Los Angeles ever was Paradise, it's lost...
...Chandler knew the territory well, Nathanael West wrote of it brilliantly in The Day of the Locust, but no one has recently taken the measure of the neon void with such savage precision as Joan Didion. Play It As It Lays was a novel about a young actress, Maria Wyeth, crumbling into the pieces of a psychic jigsaw. Didion drew the Southern California landscape with poisonous accuracy, using its shifting scenes to delineate states of an increasingly troubled mind...