—Acting advice from James Cagney.
Comic Book Readers, New York City, 1947
Untitled, 1971-1974/2012
Pigment print
44 × 60 in
111.8 × 152.4 cm
Edition of 2
Los Angeles, 1935
Seated Woman With Bent Knee, 1917
In the Heat of the Day
Uncle Melekh Lights Up, New York City, 1945
Screenplay by John Paxton
Based on the novel, “The Brick Foxhole” by Richard Brooks
In the movie the motive for murder is anti-Semitism. In the original novel the motive is homophobia, but at the time any mention of homosexuality in a movie was forbidden by the Motion Picture Production Code.
— Stanley Kubrick
Bright and Fair, Eight Bells, 1936
Oil on canvas 42 3:8 x 52 1:4 inches
Metro at Passy, Paris
1991
Great Friday post as always Robert.
First thing that came to mind with Edward Hopper’s “Automat” was Dagny Taggart sitting in the company cafeteria in Ayn Rand’s “Atlas Shrugged”.
Have a peaceful Sabbath.
Peter
On a sad note Olson Johnson (David Huddleston) has died.
The “Metro at Passy” reminds me so much of some scenes in the original “Lady Killers”. One of my favorite movies.
Maayan is turning into a beautiful young lady!
Psychologically MM must have been a mess. Any woman who wishes she could be MM ought to be careful what she wishes for. Was that all from growing up in an orphanage?
The LA drive in – my Dad grew up in LA during the 20s and 30s. I told him that was probably one of the most exciting timers to be there.
Just got a Blu Ray version of 2001 – A Space Odyssey and the movie to me is just as goofy now as when I saw it in the theater. And in reading about it Arthur Clarke said that they wanted to make it vague. I’d be interested in your take on it.
Read a book by R Lee Ermey the fellow who got his break in Full Metal Jacket and he hda some interesting Kubrick stories. For one he was so focused that they are all in his Mercedes S Class in England (he lived there) and the car runs into a ditch. Or has an accident, or something – I forget the exact details.
But it didn’t faze Kubrick – they kept on working that day.
Bill,
It’s probably in the book, but R. Lee and Stanley were friends and spoke on the phone to each other right up to Kubrick’s death. Talk about an unlikely pair. I love R. Lee, the DI’s were just as he portrayed them back in the 60’s.
I had a DI quite similar to the portrayal of Ermy. He was an advisor and the actor was not as good, so they cast him. Sort of like the story of the Russian bartender in Casablanca,
It Was an interesting book and you are right what an unlikely pair. I was surprised to learn that while of course a Marine, R Lee Ermey was not a drill sergeant.
But you would never know that in his portrayal. And it’s funny he was supposed to be just the consultant but when he was demonstrating to Stanley Kubrick how would DI was supposed to act, even Stanley Kubrick jumped when commanded. The actor who was supposed to be the DI got a consolation prize as the helicopter door gunner
I thought he was a DI around 66 in San Diego, oh well. Since I am 6′ 3″ and from Texas, I did get versions of the “How tall are you?” and “Are you from Texas?” questions. After all these years I can still feel the love.
My DI experience was in the late 50s. I’ll bet it is different now. I did a post on my blog about my basic training experience. A buddy I hadn’t seen in 50 years saw it and we got in touch.
After all these years, so you still feel the love?
Wunderbar!