Re: will and plays
Camille Scaysbrook (verona_beach@geocities.com)
Thu, 25 Mar 1999 16:13:54 +1100
> "Ehaos, control, chaos, control; you like, you like." Eloise Kittredge,
> Stockard Channing. That's my favorite line of the movie, offered while
> showing the two sided Kadensky (sp?).
>
> Josh
Kandinsky. And for the record, he really did paint double-sided paintings
(which, I guess, makes them twice as valuable - or half as valuable) Having
seen a couple more artistic references in earlier Salinger stories I'm
wondering more and more how much of an art buff Salinger was/is. He doesn't
seem to see the `section-manness' in art in the same way he does in
literature. Perhaps he regards it as the purest and most honest art -
something that certainly is reflected in De Daumier Smith.
By the way ... and this has been bugging me for awhile - what is the actual
literal meaning of `section man'?
Camille
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>
> Paul Kennedy wrote:
> >
> > I'm getting a guilty feeling because I apparently started this thread
by
> > mentioning (favourably, as I recall) the movie version of SIX DEGREES
OF
> > SEPARATION--within which is embedded a loathsome little monologue about
> > CATCHER.
> > I actually LIKED the movie very much--especially the very literate
script,
> > and a brilliant performance by Donald Sutherland (who deserves an
Oscar of
> > his own for his colourful political past: son-in-law of the father of
> > Canadian socialism, blah, blah, blah....) There were moments in the
first
> > ten minutes when scenes were juxtaposed cinematically, in a manner that
I
> > couldn't imagine ever even trying on the stage. But I'd LOVE to read
the
> > play! I'll just skip the part where the protagonist imposter starts
talking
> > about Mark Chapman.
> >
> > My guilt, though, arises from the fact that Will (who can defend
himself,
> > for sure) is now being attacked as some sort of boorish puritan who
hates
> > the thee-uh-tur--when nothing, I am sure, could be further from the
truth.
> > He loves the Yankees (which IS a problem!), but he doesn't hate the
theatre,
> > or he'd have to hold his nose every time he read a paragraph about at
least
> > half of the Glass family....
> >
> > Paul
> >
> > PS--I managed to sneak my OSO into the final few words of this missive,
as I
> > hope you've all noticed!