Word: film
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...Hollywood. Mankiewicz, who won Academy Awards for both screenplay and directing in two pictures-Letter to Three Wives (1949), and All About Eve (1950)-ruefully admitted that big-budget movies, à la his Cleopatra, which cost $40 million, are now out. "What they would like my next four films to be," he said, "are Easy Cowboy, Midnight Rider, Cowboy Rider and Easy Midnight." Mankiewicz has apparently got the message. His latest film is a low-cost western called There Was A Crooked...
...Venice, where his new movie was shown last week, Author Norman Mailer staunchly came to the defense of Maidstone, which he wrote, directed and, naturally, starred in. Set in a brothel for girls, the film had been criticized by female viewers on the grounds that it exploits women. Retorted the former candidate for mayor of New York: "Exploitation of woman? But it is impossible to exploit her because she has magic powers. I am against the emancipation of women just because I respect them...
Jane Fonda, champion of the oppressed, last week came to the defense of another minority group. In Manhattan to film Klute, in which she plays a call girl, Jane accompanied an authentic prostitute to pick-up bars to observe the action firsthand. She quickly developed empathy for women who work the streets. "They are the inevitable product of a society that places ultimate importance on money, possessions and competition," said Jane. "These ladies are saying out front, 'We want the goods too; so we'll do what other women do, but we'll get paid...
...Pierre Boulez at Bayreuth and California's Ojai Festival, rehearsed the orchestra for the famous Heifetz-Piatigorsky concerts. If Thomas seems to enjoy the performing aspects of conducting, that is natural. His grandfather, Boris Thomashefsky, was a founder of the Yiddish theater in New York. His father is Film Maker Ted Thomas; Paul Muni was a cousin...
...words should be said in praise of a tough little movie called Darker Than Amber. It represents a kind of film making that is currently unfashionable: the straightforward, uncluttered private-eye melodrama that was so much a part of the American cinema of the '40s. It is a tradition to which Godard payed homage in Breathless, and out of which came some first-rate film makers like John Huston...