Stuck in that weird intersection between the death throes of the old Hollywood and the birth pangs of the new, The Loved One, Tony Richardson’s 1965 film of Evelyn Waugh’s satire of famed Los Angeles cemetery Forest Lawn, remains one of the strangest mainstream American movies, and one of its most entertaining disasters.
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Stuck in that weird intersection between the death throes of the old Hollywood and the birth pangs of the new, The Loved One, Tony Richardson’s 1965 film of Evelyn Waugh’s satire of famed Los Angeles cemetery Forest Lawn, remains one of the strangest mainstream American movies, and one of its most entertaining disasters.
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We all saw the photo on the cover of The New York Times Magazine: a skeletal Joan Didion showing us up close the real-time re-enactment of a widow’s pain—the image of bereavement blown up like a billboard.
One glance at that photo and you’re primed for the lesson of The Year of Magical Thinking: She’s Read More
We all saw the photo on the cover of The New York Times Magazine: a skeletal Joan Didion showing us up close the real-time re-enactment of a widow’s pain—the image of bereavement blown up like a billboard.
One glance at that photo and you’re primed for the lesson of The Year of Magical Read More
Have you any idea, I wonder, how insane people are who write plays? Call them idealists, or dreamers, or the noblest of them all, but anyone who wakes up one day and says to himself “I think I’ll write a play today” must be nuts.
It isn’t easy being a playwright. First, you have to Read More
