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...betrayed none of the joyous gluttony of our other great obese director, Orson Welles--a loquacious whale who would swallow the world. In Hitchcock's films, food was often associated with guilt; it was a sign of indulgence. Hitchcock was a perverse brat buried in mounds of stolid grey flesh--our naughtiest virtuoso...
...Madonna in The Forbidden Path (1918) and Corinne Griffith surrounded by a field of flowers in Outcast (1928) prove that the silents offered impressionistic masterpieces that have remained unequaled. A candid shot of Jackie Coogan, Charlie Chaplin and Douglas Fairbanks clowning on the set of The Kid helps flesh out Coogan's joyous memories of his child-star days. The many photos of old Hollywood sets -including a sun-flooded reconstruction of Ford's Theater for The Birth of a Nation -attest to the resourcefulness of movie craftsmen in the pre-sound-stage period. The eccentricities of Hollywood...
...clown suit, Wavy Gravy, one of the original Merry Pranksters from San Francisco in the '60s, acted as master of ceremonies, reading stage announcements, introducing speakers, and repeatedly calling on the crowd to dig into "its pockets, each others pockets, for a little green energy, refined tree flesh," to help the Coalition pay off the estimated $70,000 cost of the rally...
...told her that no one could force me to disclose anything I chose not to reveal. She didn't believe me. I told her to light her cigarette lighter and hold it out. She did and I placed my hand, palm down, over the flame. Presently the flesh turned black and when she smelled the scent of burning meat, Sherry Stevens pulled the lighter away from my hand. Pale, Miss Stevens said she was sure I would never betray her, but excused herself as a candidate, invoking a just remembered plan to marry a Swiss airplane pilot in September...
...could not now remember what she had felt for the men she had been with in her own realm, but she knew it had been nothing like this. It was as if she were relinquishing light and air for bonds that tightened as she breathed, growing into her flesh." Suffering still, she bears...