David Andrews Posted March 30, 2020 Share Posted March 30, 2020 (edited) 18 minutes ago, Pamela Brown said: Yes, I agree. Just surprising, as my roommate and I saved up to go to the coffee houses in the Village and we saw some great people -- Mort Sahl, Dick Gregory, and a number of others. I really wish I had seen Dylan back then too... I'm NYU 1983. Lou Reed at the Bottom Line, Edited March 30, 2020 by David Andrews Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joseph McBride Posted March 30, 2020 Share Posted March 30, 2020 Martin Scorsese (who's back making films since the 1960s, BTW) is the one who made the Dylan documentary mentioned above. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ron Ecker Posted March 30, 2020 Share Posted March 30, 2020 The subject of folk music back when reminds me of a trio that used to play at a club in St. Augustine around 1960. I forget what they called themselves (it was a gal and two guys like Peter, Paul and Mary), but their signature song was "I'm a-Crackin' Up from a Lack o' Shackin' Up." (I guess it was an original, I don't know.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pamela Brown Posted March 31, 2020 Share Posted March 31, 2020 (edited) On 3/29/2020 at 8:56 PM, David Andrews said: I'm NYU 1983. Lou Reed at the Bottom Line, Nice! I also saw the guy with the sinking of the Rice Krispies...and I saw James Earl Jones in Baal at the way-off Broadway 'theatre' Martinique, which was so small, he spat on me as I was seated on a bench that constituted the front row! Edited March 31, 2020 by Pamela Brown Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pamela Brown Posted March 31, 2020 Share Posted March 31, 2020 19 hours ago, Joseph McBride said: Martin Scorsese (who's back making films since the 1960s, BTW) is the one who made the Dylan documentary mentioned above. Yes... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Andrews Posted March 31, 2020 Share Posted March 31, 2020 (edited) 2 hours ago, Pamela Brown said: Nice! I also saw the guy with the sinking of the Rice Krispies...and I saw James Earl Jones in Baal at the way-off Broadway 'theatre' Martinique, which was so small, he spat on me as I was seated on a bench that constituted the front row! I saw Al Pacino in Richard III at Circle in the Square. Edited March 31, 2020 by David Andrews Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pamela Brown Posted April 1, 2020 Share Posted April 1, 2020 20 hours ago, David Andrews said: I saw Al Pacino in Richard III at Circle in the Square. Impressive! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Andrews Posted April 1, 2020 Share Posted April 1, 2020 21 minutes ago, Pamela Brown said: Impressive! It was nice to be in the house with Al, but it wasn't a convincing Richard. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
W. Niederhut Posted April 1, 2020 Share Posted April 1, 2020 (edited) 2 hours ago, David Andrews said: It was nice to be in the house with Al, but it wasn't a convincing Richard. Can't picture Al Pacino as Richard III. "A horse! A horse, dammit! My God d*mned kingdom for a f**king horse!!" 🤥 Edited April 1, 2020 by W. Niederhut Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Andrews Posted April 1, 2020 Share Posted April 1, 2020 (edited) 10 minutes ago, W. Niederhut said: Can't picture Al Pacino as Richard III. "A horse! A horse, dammit! My God d*mned kingdom for a f**king horse!!" 🤥 It was definitely a personal interpretation. About thirty years later he did it on film, but not quite the way he did in in the early 1980s. John Simon savaged the show in New York magazine. That ought to still be kicking around on the 'net - it was one of his most famous put-downs. After the show we got something to drink and had to walk back past the theater to get home. People were waiting by the stage door alley for autographs. Pacino came out, signed a couple programmes, and then got in a Land Rover with some people. He raised his hand and said, "Hank you!" I'll never forget how that sounded, in Al-speak and without the Th- sound. Hank you! EDIT: Here's the infamous John Simon review: https://books.google.com/books?id=JdjFy4ez1IMC&pg=PA140&lpg=PA140&dq=John+Simon+Al+Pacino+Richard+III&source=bl&ots=O3UaaiYBVi&sig=ACfU3U0vKkqOH4QbNdvqw40_v9n_4nJPAg&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwj35MiRsMboAhWmlnIEHQ1pB7oQ6AEwAHoECA8QKQ#v=onepage&q=John Simon Al Pacino Richard III&f=false Hank you! Edited April 1, 2020 by David Andrews Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
James DiEugenio Posted April 1, 2020 Share Posted April 1, 2020 That was really funny. I always liked Simon better as a theater critic than a film critic. He was really a literary guy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
James DiEugenio Posted April 1, 2020 Share Posted April 1, 2020 Let me add something about the actual topic: I am going to do some revisions to my article. I never meant it to be comprehensive but some people have taken up where I left off and done some rally nice comments. On top of that some others have talked to Dylanologists to add other insights. Its really nice when it gets interactive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pamela Brown Posted April 2, 2020 Share Posted April 2, 2020 On 3/31/2020 at 8:32 PM, David Andrews said: It was nice to be in the house with Al, but it wasn't a convincing Richard. Oh no, I am sorry to hear that... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pamela Brown Posted April 2, 2020 Share Posted April 2, 2020 (edited) Here's a listing for the production of Baal, by Berthold Brecht that starred James Earl Jones that I saw at the tiny Martinique Theatre. in 1965..http://www.iobdb.org/production/3607 He was dressed in nothing but a loin cloth. A most amazing presence. And that voice! How lucky I was. I had no doubt we would hear of him again. I was a grad student at NYU, studying modern drama and our prof insisted that we go -- otherwise, I might never have known about the production. Edited April 2, 2020 by Pamela Brown Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
W. Niederhut Posted April 2, 2020 Share Posted April 2, 2020 On 3/31/2020 at 11:28 PM, James DiEugenio said: Let me add something about the actual topic: I am going to do some revisions to my article. I never meant it to be comprehensive but some people have taken up where I left off and done some rally nice comments. On top of that some others have talked to Dylanologists to add other insights. Its really nice when it gets interactive. I always fancied myself a "Dylanologist," but it would be more accurate to say that I was a Dylan impersonator. When I was in high school and college back in the 70s, my folkster friends and I idolized Bob Dylan, and we used to play a lot of his songs in our folk/blues repertoire. Anything by Dylan was considered unquestionably cool. I played guitar and used a Bob Dylan-style harmonica holder. Since I'm sheltering-in-place today, and my fellow Dylan fans are crawling out of the word work, I just posted another one of my favorite old Bob Dylan cover songs at Soundclick. This one was written in August of 1963, just three months before JFK was murdered. https://www.soundclick.com/music/songInfo.cfm?songID=14018631 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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