Word: kazan
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ASSASSINS by ELIA KAZAN 311 pages. Stein...
...Elia Kazan, of stage and screen, broke into bestselling novel writing five years ago with The Arrangement, in which a middle-aged adman turns intellectual and works up a healthy sweat over old values and a new woman. The prose was rough cut; the characters were slabs of emotional clichés. Kazan was not out to master the novel form but to overwhelm it on his way to the movie script...
...Streetcar Named Desire. Ol' Ten'see Williams play, put on the screen with Marlon Brando directed by Elia Kazan. Feb. 11, 8:30 p.m., Channel...
Perhaps the reason Kramer was eating up the questioners' semi-condescending 'artistic appreciation' was its novelty. For years, Kramer was Hollywood's only liberal "socially-conscious" producer-director (with the occasional exception of New York outsiders like Kazan). He stayed in Hollywood for studio money and soundstages, and his films were among the few made there that dealt, on a large scale, with important contemporary subject matter: racial strife, American "success", the misfit problems of war veterans and motorcycle gangs. To make them, Kramer had to fight--and then compromise. He hoped to film the T.V. play, Judgment at Nuremberg...
...decent manual laborer since, not even in Five Easy Pieces, which made the only repressed figure an ex-concert pianist. Even Brando's heroic dockworker from On the Waterfront would be a welcome addition to current filmgoer; though the enemy in that film was a crooked union (read in Kazan's anti-communism) and the force of good a priest (read in the moral order of liberal America); at least Terry Mullow was a full human being who had a culture of his own and thought about his life. If Shebib's point is that the working-class has become...