Word: nesbit
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...agitated bourgeois mind; fable is superimposed on history. And they all run like hell to the D.W. Griffith finish line. Long shot: Harry Houdini performs thrilling escapes, restaging his own birth trauma for a country just then emerging from isolationism into imperialism. Closeup: Emma Goldman, anarchist spellbinder, woos Evelyn Nesbit out of her petticoats and prejudices. Two-shot: Henry Ford and John Pierpont Morgan discuss reincarnation in the Morgan Library. A few chapters later, Coalhouse Walker Jr., a Negro piano player who dares to chart his own destiny as the two plutocrats did theirs, has seized the Morgan Library...
...Step back for the long shot; move in for the closeup. Distance and involvement, irony and sympathy. Working with Playwright Michael Weller, his collaborator on the 1979 film version of Hair, Forman concentrates on one main story and one subplot-Coalhouse Walker's rise to notoriety and Evelyn Nesbit's career as America's first sex goddess-and only glances at or ignores the rest. By taking 155 minutes to tell less than half of Doctorow's 270-page pageant, Forman and Weller have created an impressive but strangely lopsided movie...
...talking sense and restraint to Coalhouse; and from James Cagney, back on-screen after a 20-year lapse and cool as a leprechaun sphinx in the role of a wily New York City police commissioner. Only Elizabeth McGovern seems out of tune and time. She plays Evelyn Nesbit as the daffily dumb prototype for every bombshell from Marilyn to Bo-cheeks puffed, eyes glazed, tripping through life in a sweet stupor. She weighs the film down before Rollins & Co. have the chance to make it soar...
...languorous beauty and a former Gibson Girl, Evelyn Nesbit was dubbed "the girl in the red velvet swing" But she swung a little too much, and her dalliance with Stanford White prompted her husband, Millionaire Socialite Harry K. Thaw, to murder the celebrated architect during a musical-comedy performance on the roof garden atop the White-designed old Madison Square Garden. For the film adaptation of E.L. Doctorow's fictive replay, Ragtime, Director Milos Forman, 49, interviewed hundreds for the part of Nesbit, then settled on Elizabeth McGovern, 20, after he saw her in Ordinary People. The young actress...
...meet Freeman Dyson as a nine-year-old child poring over--not Einstein's differential equations--but Edith Nesbit's utopia. This introduction is true to character. Dyson is not just a physicist; he's a romantic, a humanist and an optimist...