Word: cocteau
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...Andromeda Strain, Crichton concedes, he wasn't much for delving into character ("It didn't matter who the people were"). Still, he's human: criticism stings. "You know, I'm not very well read," he says, with characteristic self-effacement. "I was reading a book Cocteau wrote called The Difficulty of Being. And in that, he had an essay on writing, and he said what I've always believed about myself. He didn't care about being noticed for his style. He only wanted to be noticed for his ideas. And even better for the influence of the ideas. Which...
Hell, as it turns out, hath a lot more fury than a woman scorned-at least if the woman is Kathleen Turner. The bassoon-voiced actress, starring on Broadway in Indiscretions (a revival of Jean Cocteau's Les Parents Terribles), was the only member of the show's five-person cast not to get a Tony nomination. The snub was compounded in awkwardness because Turner had been chosen to read the nominations to the press and because her fellow reader, Jeremy Irons, then drawled cattily, "I always think it's better to be nominated than to win." Other than that...
...opera, La Belle et la Bete (Beauty and the Beast), which had its American premiere last week at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, Glass has finally found the perfect vehicle for his Wagnerism in the film of the same title by the French author, aesthete and cineaste Jean Cocteau. Glass's is the best version of the story yet -- even surpassing Disney's animated movie musical...
...films of Cocteau, the boulevardier who knew everyone and did everything in the period between the World Wars, are serving to inspire a trilogy by Glass. His work in progress, Les Enfants Terribles, will be a dance-theater work based on the scenario of the film. In last year's Orphee, the first in the series, Glass used the screenplay of Cocteau's 1949 film as the libretto for a conventional opera, with entirely new music, sets and staging...
...Cocteau tells it, the story combines elements of two familiar fairy tales. Like Cinderella, la Belle dotes on her ineffectual father and is cordially loathed by her two homely sisters, Felicie and Adelaide. When Dad is captured by a ferocious monster, Belle offers herself up in his place and eventually turns the Beast back into a handsome prince through the power of love...