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Kleig Lights on the Potomac
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| Contributor | Craverguy |
| Last Edited | Craverguy Sep 27, 2009 05:21pm |
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| Category | Review |
| Author | Joel Connaroe |
| Media | Newspaper - New York Times |
| News Date | Sunday, January 21, 1990 06:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Standing in front of an altar, his monocle glittering in the klieg lights, a tiny Prussian officer is about to assault the mother of an American soldier. "Who is Henry Adams?" he asks, gutturally. The woman, who has the face of a Madonna, tells him, and suggests that he read The Education. Then as he tears at her dress, she picks up a crucifix and breaks it across his head.
It's a perfect take, and the director is ecstatic. The actors, too, are pleased, though Emma's makeup is burning her eyes and unlucky Pierre is rubbing his head. Their improvised dialogue is edifying, to be sure, but since the film is silent the book chat will be heard by none of the throngs of viewers who will be inspired by Huns From Hell to new heights of patriotic fervor and who will make Emma Traxler, whose real name is Caroline Sanford, an international star.
This cinematic encounter is just one of many entertaining moments in Hollywood, the latest installment in Gore Vidal's documentation (and revision) of our country's fables and foibles from its infancy to the 1950's. |
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