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...Morning, Noon, and Night, which he saw at the Loeb this Fall; his nervous militancy in politics; his not-so-halcyon undergraduate days at Harvard; and finally, his future plans, among which are the coming of The World's Greatest Plays (about the world's greatest hero) and his screenplay for The Strawberry Statement, the American entry to the Cannes Film Festival, adapted from James Kunen's articles...
...film. In contrast to his intimate involvement with all his plays, his attitude towards the silver screen is somewhat more ambivalent. "I don't know what the hell I'm doing with film; I'm just in it." "Being in film" for Horovitz involves writing the screenplay for The Strawberry Statement for the Cames Film Festival and work in progress on a film called Speed is of the Essence about amphetamines. The story of how James Kunen got to the Cannes Film Festival via the CRIMSON and Horovitz is simply uncomplicated and improbable. "I was sought after to do movies...
...producer Terry Southern and director Aram Avakian co-authored the screen play. End of the Road was made with a great deal of improvisation in an abandoned textile factory in Great Barrington, Mass. The resulting film has all the flaws of Southern's earlier screenplay effort, Easy Rider, and none of its graces. Chalk up End of the Road to Southern's growing list of dismal creations that include such abortions as The Loved Ones, Barbarella and The Magic Christian...
...Birthday Party ) has wisely chosen to "open up" the play very little. What scenes there are outside of Michael's claustrophobic east Sixties apartment work well with Crowley's conception. And Friedkin's superb eye for seine detail and character groupings greatly augment the power of the screenplay...
...violence that movie screenwriters have done to popular books sometimes hints of sadism, then Terry Southern is currently playing out a textbook case of masochism. For reasons known only to himself. Joe McGrath, and Peter Sellers (his two collaborators on the screenplay), Southern has reduced his stingingly satirical novelette, The Magic Christian, to a cinematic monument of horedom and banality...