She became a writer at a time when writers were celebrities and their recklessness was admirable. Like Fitzgerald, Hemingway, Faulkner, and Hammett, Lillian Hellman was a smoker, a drinker, a lover, and a fighter. Hellman maintained a social and political life as large and restless ...
She was the archetypal silent film heroine -- the delicate damsel in distress, fainting on an ice floe, cowering before a brutal bounder, languishing in a garret. She has been called "the first lady of the silent screen," and film director D.W. Griffith extolled her ...
"Merce Cunningham" director Charles Atlas answers a few questions for AMERICAN MASTERS ONLINE. Q: When did you first become aware of Cunningham? I first met Merce Cunningham in 1971 and in 1974 began collaborating with him over a period of ten years making "media/dances", works ...
by David Vaughan The title of Charles Atlas' new documentary on Merce Cunningham may be taken quite literally: his mother described his dancing down the aisle of the church the family attended in Centralia, Washington, at the age of four. At 82, Cunningham is still ...
"Making the world's available resources serve one hundred percent of an exploding population can only be accomplished by a boldly accelerated design revolution." There are few men who can justly claim to have revolutionized their discipline. R. Buckminster Fuller revolutionized many. "Bucky," as he was ...
"I never knew of but one artist, and this is Tom Eakins, who could resist the temptation to see what they think ought to be rather than what is." - Walt Whitman When Thomas Eakins died in 1916, he left behind a body of work ...
