"Ah Wilderness"
O'Neill's only comedy
3/16-4/15/2007

Eugene O'Neill (1888- )
"I am tickled to death by life"
father- successful stage actor, playing in adaptation of The Count of Monte Cristo
suspended after 1st year at Princeton
married 1st wife against the wishes of both families
1920 his father died
mother addicted to morphine, died in 1922
alcoholic older brother drank himself to death 1924
3 marriages, first two in divorce, last tumultuous
son from 1st wife committed suicide in 1950
Oona (18), daughter from 2nd wife, married Charlie Chaplin (54)

Long Day's Journey into Night
mostly autobiographical
- posted by B @ 6:40 PM

 
stranger than fiction

really good actress whose name i forgot.
will ferrell. harold crick, nice guy
woman in secretary, sister of jake. the baker- when she talks of milk and cookies...
dustin hoffman. literary expert

on plane fr SNA to O'Hare airport
so good that i didn't fall asleep despite 2 hours of sleep and long drive fr LV
tiny far off screen, so couldn't see the details

plot was well paced
obviously strange, and didn't know what to expect
some suspension of disbelief
sorta like "adaptations" in terms of author-character relationship being blurred

psych: (does every movie have some element of psychiatry in it, or is it just me?)
i think the froufrou fellow (pict of movie of harold in front of clouds) may have been his boss, but could be stereotypical touchy-feely, sometimes a tree is just a tree shrink
and the short woman in glasses was the psychiatrist who kept on saying he was schizophrenic, and needed medications. and also suggested a literary expert, which led harold to dustin hoffman's character.
-just b/c one hears voices one's not schizophrenic

okie, really should work on presentation that i keep on complaining about.
- posted by B @ 9:26 PM