Word: film
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...Fall; his nervous militancy in politics; his not-so-halcyon undergraduate days at Harvard; and finally, his future plans, among which are the coming of The World's Greatest Plays (about the world's greatest hero) and his screenplay for The Strawberry Statement, the American entry to the Cannes Film Festival, adapted from James Kunen's articles...
However, Horovitz very definitely has an expanding career now. One new experiment for him is film. In contrast to his intimate involvement with all his plays, his attitude towards the silver screen is somewhat more ambivalent. "I don't know what the hell I'm doing with film; I'm just in it." "Being in film" for Horovitz involves writing the screenplay for The Strawberry Statement for the Cames Film Festival and work in progress on a film called Speed is of the Essence about amphetamines. The story of how James Kunen got to the Cannes Film Festival...
...very few people in show business seem to realize how quickly the "modern" musical has aged, how unacceptable these shows are now to most theatregoers under fifty. Certainly Hollywood studio heads are the most blind in this respect, which explains their financing of such colossal bombs as the film versions of Dolly, Paint Your Wagon and Finian's Rainbow...
...awareness of the need for a new from back in 1963, when he directed his first show, She Loves Me. In terms of plot, characters and feel, this musical was no different from any of a hundred sentimental musicals that preceded it (It was based on Lubitsch's 1940 film, The Shop Around the Corner) . But, very subtly and tentatively, Prince was tinkering with the conventions. The normal, large singing-dancing chorus was stripped down to about six members. The book was scant, and songs, rather than being integrated into the text, often formed whole scenes in themselves. Prince also...
...nervous about the film's critical reception?" I asked...