Word: screening
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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Actually they are attempting much more: creating a total sensual environment that includes a light show, rock music, films shown on a screen, and videotapes on television screens. Borrowing from McLuhan, the theater is called Global Village...
...theater has seven television screens arranged in a semicircle. Visitors sit and lie on slabs of foam rubber thrown on the floor in front of the sets. The show consists of about two dozen videotapes shown in various sequences on different sets while films and light shows are cast on the movie screen behind them. No need to get stoned; the show does...
...people do, which is part of the show's failure as a total environment. The light kinetics on the movie screen rarely relate to what is on the televisions; so the totality can become as confusing as a five-ring circus. And people lie on their separate cushions completely isolated from each other. This is after all New York City, and it will take more than comfortable, informal surroundings and an exciting show to make strangers talk to each other...
...movie Edwards portrayed a black G.I. hospitalized by a wartime mental breakdown, examining his feelings toward the three whites-one hopelessly bigoted -who accompanied him on the traumatic mission in the Pacific. On Broadway he played in Deep Are the Roots and accumulated other notable credits for his screen roles in Bright Victory, Member of the Wedding, The Caine Mutiny, The Manchurian Candidate and The Sandpiper...
...Hoffman, he was airlifted from off-Broadway to Rome for Madigan's Millions and given a fast $5,000 for his first film role as a fumbling, bumbling G-man. Today he could light his cigars with bills of that size-and may be tempted to put his screen debut to the same use. At first glance, he can hardly be blamed. The movie's garish color and lighting would give an aspirin a headache, and its flubbed, dubbed screenplay is sheer, towering Babel. Yet here and there are some amusing hints of the ludicrous student who became...