The Screen
Westerbeck, Colin L. Jr.
itself impervious to every new DDT developed. No matter...
...She phia in a production that wrecked the rhythm of Streetcar...
...Williams has always been partial to that kind of playful Commonweal: 146 serious title (A Streetcar Named Desire, Camino Real), and decision to ally herself with Bodey suggests that warm vulgarwhat little plot the play has carries Dorothea beyond her ity is more desirable than waspish correctness although even creve-coeur to the amusement park, to an acceptance of life in that warmth is cold comfort...
...That's what Wifemistress does...
...It was the bourgeois back, and he is ready to come back...
...he shuffles forward, a broken man-a man who has popularity of this notion even inspired a producer of porn to finally met his match, his "equal," in a woman...
...It turns out that a smother the loneliness that Williams sees as central to the Victorian wife with a secret life was really a forerunner of the human condition...
...This is the beginning of her own sexual education...
...this is the title is not simply the heartbreak of Dorothea, the leading sort of thinking that fakes the women's movement right out of character but an amusement park to which her roommate, its socks...
...Add German girl from upstairs, to give her coffee and crullers and that each act opens with a tinny victrola grinding out "Alone" compassion, to recognize-as she has refused to do before- and that the lines are so full of the names of products, places, that the, girl's fear of being alone in the apartment where her people that they seem a parody of Blanche DuBois's fondness mother died is only an extension of what all the characters feel...
...Afterwards, she sends the doctor away forever the starkest picture of loneliness in the Williams canon...
...of the good lines) are forms of desperation, but Dorothea's GERALD WEALES Books: JESUS, COD'S LIVING PARABLE THE APPEARANCE, in English, of IU03: with awesome skill and comprehension...
...Next she tries a one- Laura, alone, illuminated by the candles which, for all night stand with a soldier, and then a long-range relationship that they are the...
...for the specific...
...She leaves her bed and takes up the family FAMILIAR WILLIAMS THEMES business obligations...
...Louis German Helena) are never more than the vaudeville antagonists Wilbrother, the antithesis of the now inaccessible principal...
...Schillebeeckx sets out to christology...
...The truth is that they women in the most repressive, prudish societies who, this deserve each other...
...But on the looking for a more permanent home...
...Who'd have thunk it...
...Both Bodey's blowzy soliloquy alike-and it takes more than the proclamation of cheerfulness and Helena's thin-lipped bitchiness (she has most creve-coeur to provide a substantial theatrical picnic...
...The Creve Coeur of the other hand, she's also some kind of closet feminist...
...dialogue with exegetes rather than his being on strange ground in concentrating The book is divided into four major fellow theologians, not because he wants on biblical studies, he performs his task sections, moving from a discussion of 16 March 1979: 147...
...Now we're equal," she says softly, know- them...
...marriage which will make her an aunt, give her a surrogate Edgar Allan Poe" to describe Stella's apartment...
...Edward Schillebeeckx's 1975 AN EXPERIMENT IN CHRISTOLOGY In fact, I am not aware of any work in book on christology can only be Edward Schillebeeckx modern New Testament christology described as monumental...
...It is that Wifemistress has been a or desperation or plain indifference, they manage a kind of movie about-surprise!-women's liberation...
...The specter of separateness haunts them too, but, ing that even though he can't hear her, he gets the message...
...Making his rounds of the province, she also discovers that he had a mistress at every stop...
...It turns liberation into mere libertinism...
...But don't I take a shot at legit audiences a few years ago with an adaptation detect a subtle glint in his eye which suggests that he's not as of the underground Victorian classic, The Flea...
...Finding his pornog- THE FINAL IMAGE in The Glass Menagerie is that of raphy collection, she tries masturbation...
...Bodey, who used comedy in his serious plays-particularly verbal comedy knows that she will never have children of her own, envisions a (think of Amanda on...
...the play ends in darkness...
...But when he is falsely accused of murder and has to go into hiding even from her, she TENNESSEE'S WALTZ bestirs herself...
...It's the old one-two A Lovely Sunday for Creve Coeur, which was first performed punch...
...But in a work this written a genuinely significant study in he considers a critical and competent as- size, such borrowings are inevitable...
...The nancially (to pay for the expensive apartment she covets), but problem, I suspect, is that there is an idea rather than dramatic her brief soliloquy on eating alone indicates that Dorothea's substance at the heart of their speeches-conversation and presence is as important as her money...
...Gentleman Caller's "favorite kind of with a young doctor...
...Dorothea is a school teacher (civics), a foolish, pretty characters that bring' echoes of so many Williams women who blonde woman, running to plumpness and shortness of breath, have gone before, but how are we to take the play...
...the telephone, Blanche's conjuring "Mr...
...whether lyre:, victims or comic grotesques, beset by violence We get the message, too...
...I suspect that he is actually a familiar a new film from Italy by director Marco Vicario, is the latest figure, the male submissive who approaches his dominatrix addition to this genre...
...First Wifemistress Now, almost thirty-five years after Laura's disappearance recreates the past in the image of the present, as a society of into darkness, Williams is back with a quartet of women swingers, and then it suggests that such a society is what coping with or succumbing to the perennial Williams problem...
...Monumental which can match it...
...The is contrite...
...Italy around the turn of the century who is so repressed that she is a hypochondriac unable to leave her bed...
...Wifemistress, defeated as he seems...
...And in the end, having discovered speech...
...A nice fantasy...
...At the end of the film, when the wifemistress drives from her bed the young doctor ALFRED Hitchcock used to say that he put icy blondes in whom she has seduced and made to fall in love with her, what his films because behind that cold exterior, they were she becomes is a belle dame sans merci...
...Certain ideas which men have about women seem to Bodey, regularly goes with her twin brother for Sunday picbe as tenacious as one of those strains of potato bug that proves nics...
...This is another vitality which insists that they try to escape, to outsmart, to nice fantasy, just like Hitchcock's blondes...
...She even sleeps with a couple of her light," will bring no warmth to the girl...
...which one settles for what one can get instead of what one Familiar Williams theme then, relentlessly explicit,- and wants...
...Be- liams has written and Jane Lowry's suicidal Miss Gluck is a fore she goes, she stops long enough to quiet the hysterical travesty character as well as an unlikely Miss Happiness...
...She pulls herself together and goes off to join the picnic, to ac- manages to get through the voice to the character by the end of quiesce in the courtship that Bodey has been engineering with the play, but Peg Murray (as Bodey) and Charlotte Moore (as her fat, cigar-smoking, beer-drinking St...
...Laura blows out the candles...
...Now that Vicario's heroine has current films about the women of the past, especially Victorian behaved as badly as her husband did, she is ready to take him women, make a similar assumption...
...His demeanor as he approaches the house current wisdom goes, were most gloriously over-sexed...
...that her husband is hiding within view of their home, she The quiet, almost sentimental quality of that final speech, of brings the doctor there so that her husband will have to watch the play as a whole, masks the fact that Menagerie ends with them together...
...The four family which might bring meaning to her preoccupation with women in Creve Coeur lack the urgency of the early Williams the kitchen...
...At the point when the women's movement finally tells men MALE OF THE SPECIES to screw off, a movie life Wifemistress will still have the last WIFEMISTRESS, MOTHERWHORE word: "I love it when you talk dirty...
...On the one hand, the wifemistress can play a role in-the at the Spoleto Festival USA last year, is in a showcase producsame wet dream where the icy blonde is a star...
...A lot a "equal" really means here...
...This latter fact sessment of the biblical material to be the the whole, Schillebeeckx demonstrates will be the first thing to strike the atten- essential starting point for any revitalized sound discrimination and good judgtive reader...
...and anticipates the customary mock humiliation...
...Both Bodey and Helena, the schoolteacher who expects Perhaps a comic variation on the familiar Williams theme is Dorothea to share an apartment, want to use her- not quite as intended (remember Slapstick Tragedy), but the mention of the principal did, on the reclining seat of his brand-new Reo Blanche in this context is a reminder that Williams has always touring car-as a defense against loneliness...
...Shirley who expects a romantic marriage to the handsome, socially Knight does Dorothea in a voice that suggests Marie Wilson as prominent principal of the school where she teaches and who much as the traditional Southern belle-a comic voice, one finally, this lovely Sunday, learns that her dream man has might assume, had Knight not used a similar one when she become engaged to a girl in what a 1930s comedy (the play played Blanche a few seasons ago in Princeton and Philadeltakes place in 1935) would have called "his own set...
...endorse too wholeheartedly a debatable (nearly 800 pages of text and notes) and exegetical position (such as Siegrid erudition (over 600 authors are cited), Donald Senior Schulz's elaborate hypothesis on the but because a premier systematic, theolo- theology of Q or Theodore Weeden's ingian of the Roman Catholic tradition has to be "unbrotherly" (p.40), but because terpretation of Mark...
...She's just a new tion at the Hudson Guild, presumably-like its charactersvariation on the old theme of the mother/whore...
...That's what being the most erotic of all women...
...equality of the sexes is really all about...
...On New Textament exegesis...
...At times, he seems to not only because it is massive in size Seabury, $24.50, 736 pp...
...The and stands defiantly in the bedroom window where her hus- heroines who follow tend to have more Amanda than Laura in band can see her...
...Tom finishes his last husband's old mistresses...
...Helena, who somehow confuses the history of art heroines and, contrariwise, the comedy fails to penetrate the with tea sandwiches and contract bridge, needs Dorothea fi- surface and set up shop in the viscera of the characters...
...Even though he confesses to ment...
...She relinquishes the . administration of her estates to her husband (Marcello Stage Mastroianni), who spends most of his time away from home touring the province on business...
...It's about a woman (Laura Antonnelli) in a small town in COLIN L. WESTERBECK, JR...
...liberated woman...
...No matter Screen how toxic the chemicals, this little bug finds a way to adapt, I survive, and even thrive on them...
Vol. 106 • March 1979 • No. 5
