I saw your Patreon remark that LJ wasn't playing nice with crossposts, so I came here, but then in the meantime, the crosspost went through, but what the heck, I'll comment here for once instead of over there.
Hello! I think I keep forgetting that you are on Dreamwidth as well.
The way you describe Anthony Perkins, he really does sound beguiling.
He's extraordinary. Even his voice can be very ordinary one moment, the next a live wire. I was finally able to place that I imprinted on him partly through a role I never saw him in—the protagonist of Bruce Jay Friedman's Steambath (1970), which I read my first year at Brandeis. The script in the library had photographs from the original off-Broadway production. I really wished the later PBS production had filmed the original cast. Héctor Elizondo as God, come on.
I think the riders on the affair, the conditions (the external ones--who they are, how they're positioned), which doom it, might make the feeling of the film too oppressive for me, and yet I'm very curious....
I think it's like most culturally embedded tragedies: you have to be all right going in knowing that there's no way out, whatever else may vary along the way. I found the movie worth it.
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Hello! I think I keep forgetting that you are on Dreamwidth as well.
The way you describe Anthony Perkins, he really does sound beguiling.
He's extraordinary. Even his voice can be very ordinary one moment, the next a live wire. I was finally able to place that I imprinted on him partly through a role I never saw him in—the protagonist of Bruce Jay Friedman's Steambath (1970), which I read my first year at Brandeis. The script in the library had photographs from the original off-Broadway production. I really wished the later PBS production had filmed the original cast. Héctor Elizondo as God, come on.
I think the riders on the affair, the conditions (the external ones--who they are, how they're positioned), which doom it, might make the feeling of the film too oppressive for me, and yet I'm very curious....
I think it's like most culturally embedded tragedies: you have to be all right going in knowing that there's no way out, whatever else may vary along the way. I found the movie worth it.