Word: film
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...dinner party, a group of friends." Maria's estranged husband, a film director, lets go with a few complaints of his own. "Maria would say that they were not her friends, but Maria has never understood friendship, conversation, the normal amenities of social exchange." And later. The two in bed, he shouts at her, "Well go to sleep, cunt. Go to sleep. Die. Fucking vegetable." Fucking vegetable, he shouts at her in bed, little realizing that in her catatonia Maria is only holding a mirror up to the more frenetic stiffs surrounding...
...there on the desert looking east with Marion Faye, for BZ is Joan Didion's updated version of Norman Mailer's Marion. Like Marion, BZ is homosexual. Yet he has all the accouterments to make it in the world Maria can no longer handle: he's a film producer; his body is fine and tan; and his mother, Carlotta, twice divorced and $35 million to her name, even sees fit to keep him provided with a present, if rarely loving, wife. But perhaps just because he knows he has made it, just as Maria knows she can never make...
...moves the camera to a wall of pictures. There are the young siblings, smiling, optimistic, untouched. On an adjacent wall, the children are grown, the faces strained and damned, the father satanically peering from behind a flowing beard, all silk and grosgrain. That interlude is album riffling, not film making. Such short cuts summon memories less of Robert's early years than of Cornel Wilde's, when he played Freddie Chopin in A Song to Remember...
...film's least reliable contribution comes from Rafelson, a creator of TV's Monkees. When he is working with Robert's family, he shows a thorough understanding of the tragedy that resides in love. But he is capable of making the hardhats a mere composite of beer and bowling balls. As if to give the other side unequal time, he grossly carves his intellectuals...
...Month Club in the U.S. (this November's selection) and, at an estimated $1,000,000, is contracted for the largest first printing in Pocket Books' history (close to 3,000,000 copies). It is a Reader's Digest Condensed Book for the fall. Film rights are bought for more than $500,000. Papillon has become a light industry...