I was famous again. This time I hoped for the right reason, because I had something special, and I don't know what it was, that other actresses didn't have. A star was reborn.
At any rate, hundreds of French women wanted their hair cut short a la Seberg, and not because they just saw St. Joan either.
Seberg was a supporter of the Black Panthers and became the victim of one of FBI Director Jagger Hoover's cruel tricks when he had the agency leak lies about her to a Hollywood gossip columnist.
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The FBI planted a story in a Hollywood gossip column insinuating that I, without actually mentioning my name, was carrying a child by a Black Panther. Your tax dollars at work.
This is the second movie about the movies by Mark Rappaport, who a few years ago made Rock Hudson's home movies, narrated by an actor Plane Hudson, who spoke about the gay subtext in a lot of his films.
Rappaport makes it clear what he's doing. This is fiction, so there's no misrepresentation involved, and this is one of the most thought-provoking movies I've seen about the mysteries of personal images on the screen.
I liked it very much too, and as a critic I suppose it's obvious what I liked, and I think you did too, which is when he lays in the film clips and stops the action and has a point come out of a discussion point come out of this fake diary of hers.
And it is an innovative way of doing film analysis as well as a biography, and I liked it very much too.
You know, one interesting thing I found out about this movie is, you know, it stars Mary Beth Hurt. Rappaport finished the screenplay and thought, who can I get, and the name Mary Beth Hurt came to his mind.
He called her up and she said, I can't believe you're calling me. I was born in Marshalltown, Iowa, next door to where Gene Seberg was born. I grew up next door to the Seberg family.
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And now it's time for our Video Pick of the Week, and here's some really good news. A film I've been praising for the last 14 months is finally available on home video. It's the documentary called Crumb, my selection as the very best film of last year. Roger had it number two on his list.
It's the amazing story of the underground cartoonist Robert Crumb and the sources of his emotionally powerful art, some of it coming out of his having little success with girls as an adolescent.
I never actually had any contact with these girls except I used to play footsie with this one. Where are they now?
We also meet Crumb's older brother, who taught him to draw, and he's not doing well, and we wonder why.
Charles and everybody drawing comics in the family, the Animal Town Publishing Company. That was the kind of club we had as little kids, where we sat around and talked about comics.
And Robert Crumb's other brother has a whole other set of problems.
The whole thing was this like incredible, crazy sibling thing between me and Charles and Robert up in this like little room upstairs, and the whole rest of the world didn't know what the fuck was going on. It's like these three primordial monkeys working it out in the trees, you know.
Crumb was directed by Terry Zweigloff, and for a year now I've called it a brave film because he doesn't have to push so hard.
It's painful what we see, and yet there's a joy in Crumb, too, because a marvelous artist survives a troubled home life because of his art.
Terry Zweigloff's Crumb, my video pick of the week.
Now let's take a look at the movies we reviewed on this show.
Two thumbs up for Sergeant Philco, the movie remake of the classic TV show from the 50s retooled for Steve Martin's comic talents.
We split on Jack and Sarah. I thought it was well acted, but a totally predictable story of one man and a baby. Roger liked the film's edge, as well as the performance of Richard E. Grant.
Two thumbs up for A Family Thing, the drama of long lost brothers with James Earl Jones and Robert Duvall.
And two thumbs up, way up for Carried Away, with Dennis Hopper renewing his film career with a brilliant performance of a man trying to rekindle romance in his life.
Finally, two thumbs up for From the Journals of Gene Seberg, an enterprising profile of a put-upon actor. So a number of good films, and Carried Away is the one I think that strikes me as the best on the show.
Really fine. That's it for this week. Next week we'll be back with reviews of more new movies, including Primal Fear, with Richard Gere as a hotshot defense attorney who begins to distrust his newest client.
And also Faithful, with Cher spending a day with hitman Chaz Palminteri, who's been hired to kill her by her husband Ryan O'Neal. That's next week, and until then, the balcony is closed.